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Birds
Birds
Birds
Birds
Birds
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drag
What enables a bird to overcome the air resistance ?
100
intermittent flight
What is it called when a bird alternates flapping with gliding or coasting?
100
5 inches
What is the size of a sparrow?
100
carnivores
What are meat-eaters called?
100
molts
What is it called when birds replace their feathers by shedding?
200
gliding
What is the simplest kind of flight?
200
hover
What is called when a bird remains stationary in the air?
200
10 inches
What is the size of a robin?
200
omnivores
What are animals called that eat both plants and animals?
200
syrinx
What produces a bird's singing?
300
wandering albatross
What bird has the greatest wingspread of living birds?
300
alula
What is the bird's "thumb" called?
300
18 inces
What is the size of a crow?
300
perching, scratching, climbing, grasping and running
What are the types of birds' feet?
300
dusting
When a bird nestles in a patch of dry earth and "splashes" up dust to cover its feathers
400
peregrine falcon
What is the world's fastest bird?
400
ornithologist
What is a scientist who studies birds called?
400
over 30 inches
What is the size of an eagle?
400
ostrich
What is the fastest running bird?
400
altitudinal migration
When a bird migrates a short distance
500
soaring
What is it called when a bird glides into a rising air mass?
500
instinct
What is built in knowledge that animals possess
500
herbivores
What are plant-eaters called?
500
field marks
How are birds identified?
500
flyways
What is the migrational path a bird follows year after year?