Parts of a Bird
#1
What is a beak?
A hummingbird's long beak and thin tongue is best suited for this type of food.
What is nectar?
This bird has the longest annual migration journey in the animal kingdom. Each year, they migrate from the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Circle—a round-trip journey of about 30,000 kilometers!
What is the Arctic tern?
Predation by this domesticated (and feral) animal accounts for the single largest amount of bird deaths in cities.
What are cats?
This part of a chicken can be used as a predictor of the colour of eggs it will lay.
What are the chicken's ear lobes?
#9
What is the wing?
Describe three ways birds are physically adapted for flight.
Answers may vary. (Any 3 of the following: wings, feathers, pneumatized bones (+ fused bones, beak, no teeth), streamlined bodies etc)
The term that describes a bird cleaning/oiling its feathers.
What is preening?
The pesticide that nearly decimated bald eagle populations ...it caused weakened and broken shells.
What is Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT?
The scientist who studied finches in the Galapagos and wrote about the theory of natural selection in his book "The Origin of Species."
Who is Charles Darwin?
#10
What is the breast?
Two toes pointing to the front and two toes pointing back, is the foot arrangement best suited for this activity.
What is climbing?
Describe the strange (even deadly) behaviour that Cuckoo birds engage in...
What is nest/brood parasitism?
A simple solution to reduce the 'smear' effect of moving wind turbines, and their fatal effect on birds.
What is painting one blade black? (This reduced bird collisions by 70%!)
Ontario's provincial bird. (Hint: It's not the blue jay! It prefers wading in water and diving for fish)
What is the Common Loon?
#4
What is the rump?
The meaning of sexual dimorphism which is common among birds.
What is differences between males and females (in birds this includes size differences, colouration etc)?
The strange behaviour that European White Stork babies engage in...
What is run away from home? (40% of nestlings left home in favour of neighbouring nests if unhappy with their parents' parenting skills!)
Name 3 bird migration hazards.
Answers may vary. (Any 3 of the following: windows, car collisions, cats (predation), storms and bad weather, wind turbines, pesticides, lack of food etc)
The bird with the largest wingspan.
What is the albatross?
#6
What is the vent?
Birds lack this excretory organ. (Think: think waste)
What is a bladder?
Name 2 bird courtship methods/behaviours.
Answers may vary. (Any 2 of the following: dance, sing, preen, feed, build a nest, courtship flight etc)
The term that describes chemicals transfer from lower trophic levels to higher trophic levels within a food web, resulting in a higher concentration in apex predators. (Hint: make bigger...)
What is biomagnification?
The meaning of the word extirpated. (Ex. Barn owls are extirpated from Ontario)
What is extinct in the area? (That is, the species is no longer found here, but still exists elsewhere in the world)