Bird Parts
This is the top half of the beak
What is the upper mantle
The name of my voicebox
What is the syrinx
A place that provides food, shelter, water, and living space for a bird
What is a habitat?
Someone who enjoys watching and studying birds
What is a Birder?
A strip of color that crosses the bird's wing horizontally
What is a wingbar?
This is another name for my leg
What is the tarsus
A single sound a bird makes
What is call?
To control the population of insects
Why is it important that birds eat insects?
A Scientist who studies birds
What is an Ornithologist?
A tuft of feathers that stand up on the top of a bird's head
What is a crest?
This is just below the wing
What is the flank?
Two other ways birds communicate
What is drumming, tapping, fluffs feathers, spreads its wings and juts its head forward?
Helps to identify the kinds of birds in a given area
What is a field guide?
He loved to paint birds, and tested the theory about bird migration
Who is John James Audubon?
It makes a bird a bird
What is feathers?
another name for the back of the neck
What is the nape?
A series of notes that have a pattern
What is a bird song?
Keeps track of where birds live and travel
What is bird banding
Someon who specially trained and have a license to do what they do.
What is a Bird Bander?
Birds which can perch on branches, can sing, and are born helpless
What are passerines?
The top of my head
What is the crown?
This determines how many sounds a bird can make
What is the number of muscles a bird has attached to its "voice box"?
Not living in one place all year round
What is migration
Special class of vertebrates to which birds belong
What is Aves?
Lost his Perigrine falcon which was later found on the Island of Malta
Who is King Henry IV of France?