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Bird Words
Amazing Adaptations
Bird Brained
Save the Birds
100
This is a word used to describe birds when they can no longer be found on earth
What is extinct?
100
This is another word for the mouth of a bird
What is the bill/beak?
100
This feature found on a bird helps them fly, and is not shared with any other living animal.
What are feathers?
100
This is the smallest bird in the world.
What is a hummingbird?
100
When you are hiking and come across a bird's nest, this is something you should not do.
What is collecting, touching, or disturbing the bird's nest?
200
This Bird is the United States symbol, and was almost driven to extinction by a pesticide called DDT.
What is the Bald Eagle?
200
The claws found on a bird of prey.
What are talons?
200
Baby birds develop in these.
What are eggs?
200
The seasonal movement of birds from one place to another.
What is migration?
200
Birds often fly into these "invisible" structures.
What are windows?
300
This is an obstacle that can obstruct a bird's flight pattern.
What is a radio/cell-phone tower, an antenna, a building, an electrical wire, OR a windmill?
300
The natural process of replacing old feathers with new ones.
What is molting?
300
Most owls use this to find food.
What is sound or listening?
300
Male birds are brightly colored for this reason.
What is to attract a mate OR to protect their young?
300
These are domestic predators that kill hundreds of thousands of birds each year.
What are cats?
400
This is one of the major causes of extinction in the world
What is habitat loss?
400
Bird feathers and beaks are made out of this material.
What is keratin?
400
The type of feather that keeps birds warm during the winter.
What are downy feathers?
400
One of the fastest birds in the world.
What is the Peregrine Falcon?
400
These are chemicals that have led to declines in the population of many bird species.
What are pesticides?
500
Only 1,000 years ago, flocks of these birds were common. Over-hunting drove them to extinction.
What is the passenger pigeon?
500
This is the name of a colony of herons.
What is a rookery?
500
What makes a bird skeleton different from other animal skeletons?
What are hollow bones?
500
This is the one sense that vultures rely on that is not well-developed in other birds.
What is sense of smell?
500
The federal law created by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to protect birds and other wildlife populations is known as this specific Act.
What is the Endangered Species Act?