Bye-Bye Birdie
This is a word used to describe birds when they can no longer be found on earth
What is extinct?
This is another word for the mouth of a bird
What is the bill/beak?
This feature found on a bird helps them fly, and is not shared with any other living animal.
What are feathers?
This is the smallest bird in the world.
What is a hummingbird?
When you are hiking and come upon a bird’s nest, this is something you should not do
What is collecting, touching, or disturbing birds or the nests?
This bird is the United States symbol, and was almost driven to extinction by a pesticide called DDT
What is the Bald Eagle?
The claws found on a bird of prey are called
What are talons?
Baby birds develop in these.
What are eggs?
The seasonal movement of birds from one place to another.
What is migration?
Birds often fly into these “invisible” structures, found everywhere from skyscrapers to your house.
What are windows?
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.
The natural process of replacing old feathers with new ones
What is molting?
Most owls use this to find food.
What is sound or listening?
Male birds are brightly colored for this reason.
What is to attract a mate and/or protect its young?
These are domestic predators (household pets) that kill hundreds of thousands of birds each year.
What are cats?
This is one of the major causes of extinction in the world.
What is habitat loss?
Bird feathers and beaks are made out of this material.
*hint: our nails are made of it
What is keratin?
The type of feather that keep birds warm during the winter.
What are downy feathers?
One of the fastest birds in the world.
What is the (Peregrine) Falcon?
These are chemicals that have led to declines in the population of many bird species
What are pesticides?
Only 100 years ago, flocks of 1,000’s of these birds were common. Overhunting drove them to extinction.
*hint: many of them wander around parks
What is the Passenger Pigeon?
BONUS (easy question)
The name of baby birds
What are chicks?
What makes a bird skeleton different from other animal skeletons?
Hollow bones
What is the one sense that vultures rely on that is not well developed in other birds?
*hint: one of the five senses
Sense of smell
Extinct flightless bird
What is the Dodo bird?