What's that name again?
The Joys of Being a Bird
Anatomy of a feather
Types of Feathers
Specialty Feathers
Bonus
100

Baby bird after hatching

What is a hatchling

100

Soaking up the sun

What is sunbathing

100

The thick, hard pole found in the middle of a feather, usually hollow, and easily bent

What is the shaft

100

Gives shape and form to the bird; allows it to fly

What is contour feather

100

Flight feathers on the tail, helps steer and balance while flying

What are retrices

100

Animals born with no pigment, white and red eyes

What is albino

200

Another name for water birds such as duck, geese, and penguins

What is waterfowl

200

The loss of old feathers that are then replaced by new ones

What is molting

200

Bottom part of the shaft attached to the wing/body

What is the quill

200

Shaftless feather with a small quill, puffy hairs provide warmth for the bird

What is down

200

Flight feathers on the wing

What are remiges

200

Quill, Shaft, Barbule, Vane, Barb

A. Vane

B. Shaft

C. Barb

D. Barbule

E. Quill

300

Produces reds, oranges, pinks, and yellows found in the food birds eat

What is carotenoid 

300

Birds will run their beaks across their feathers to hook the barbules back together when they've become unhooked; done to clean or waterproof themselves 

What is preening

300

Soft part of the feather

What is the vane

300

Tiny white feathers hidden underneath the contours

What is semiplume

300

The three types of remiges in order

What is primary, secondary, tertiary

300

Birds that do not waterproof their feathers so that it will sink to the bottom of the lake

What are cormorants

400

Red and green pigments produced by birds

What is porphyrin 

400

Bathing in ants to treat/ward off lice and mites

What is anting

400

Looks like tiny hairs

What are barbs

400

Teeny, tiny feathers that look like hair, relay messages to a bird's brain to adjust the position of a feather

What is filoplume

400

Contour feathers not used for flight

What are coverts

400

Little sac of oil that is located at the base of the tail feathers, using its beak to push oil out of the sac onto its bill and runs it along the feathers

What is preen gland

500

Brown and black pigments

What is melanin 

500

During molting each feather on one wing usually falls off with another feather located in the exact same place on the opposite wind

What is symmetrical molting

500

Set of tiny little hairs on each barb, resembling hooks and latches

What are barbules

500

Tiny feathers that look like animal hair

What is bristle

500

Special kind of down feather that grows all the time and its tip crumbles into a very fine powder

What is powder down feathers

500

Makes up the shaft (hint:human nails contain this)

What is keratin