Green Eggs & Ham
This nutrient-rich fluid feeds an unhatched chick.
What is yolk?
The number of shell membranes in a bird egg.
What Is two?
This is the largest living bird.
What is an ostrich?
This group of birds includes ostriches and emus.
What are flightless birds?
This type of flight allows the bird to coast “downhill”.
What is gliding?
Shell membranes in a bird egg are made of this substance.
What is keratin?
The number of chambers in a bird heart.
What is four?
The smallest of all birds.
What is the bee hummingbird?
This group of birds includes macaws and parakeets.
What are tropical birds?
The type of flight shown when hummingbirds remain stationary in the air.
What is hovering?
This substance surrounds the outermost shell of an egg.
What is calcium carbonate?
The type of feet with three toes pointed forward connected by webbing.
What are swimming feet?
This is the fastest bird.
What is a peregrine Falcon?
This group of birds includes Pelicans and grebes.
What are water birds?
Circling inside of thermal to gain altitude and then gliding to another thermal is this type of flight.
What is soaring?
This is the region of an egg where the embryo develops.
What is the germinal spot?
This type of foot has three forward toes and one hind toe.
What is perching?
The largest flying bird.
What is the Andean Condor?
This group of birds includes chickens and quail and other birds that have been hunted and are edible.
What are game birds?
The only bird known for climbing down a tree trunk head first.
What is a nut hatch?
Two of these hold the yoke body in place.
What are chalaza?
The toes of a climbing foot are arranged in this pattern.
What are two forward, two backward?
The only group of birds that do not provide any parental care for their young after hatching.
What are megapodes?
This group of birds includes eagles and Hawks.
What are birds of prey?
Migration routes that birds follow year after year.
What are flyways?