Birds (feathers)
A baby bird that has just hatched.
What is a Hatchling?
What is solitary?
What is head, thorax and abdomen?
When a bird's feathers show luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles.
What is iridescence?
Order of birds that perch and have 3 toes forward and 1 toe backward.
What are Passerines?
What is molting?
This is the greek word meaning wings.
What is Ptera?
When an animal makes and emits its own light, it is called this.
What is bioluminescence?
The name of the class that birds belong in.
What are Aves?
A bird's voice box.
What is a Syrinx?
This is where the feather attaches to the body of a bird.
What is a quill?
A group of animals that live in close connection with each other.
What is a colony?
An aquatic, immature state of an insect
What is a naiad?
What is a habitat or biome?
A large group of birds is called this.
What is a flock?
The skinny hairs of a bird's feather.
What are barbs?
Animals with a backbone are know as this.
What are vertebrates?
Insect development that includes egg, nymph and adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
The Kingdom that birds belong in.
What is Animalia?
The tagging of the leg of a bird for study purposes.
What is bird banding?
The act of a bird fixing its feathers to fly or be usesful.
What is preening?
Animals without a backbone are called this.
What are invertebrates?
Insect development that includes egg, larva, pupa, adult.
What is complete metamorphosis?
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 was in direct response to the extinction of this species of bird.
What are passenger pigeons?
This is a single sound a bird makes.
What iis a bird call?