PERCHING BIRDS
typically found in
Where is forests, parks and backyards?
another name for birds of prey
What is raptors?
List 3 types of birds in this category.
(Answers may vary) - What are waterfowl, pelicans, grebes, flamingos, gulls, and herons?
Game birds have been hunted for this
What is food?
Flightless birds are missing this structure on their sternum, causing them to have weak pectoral muscles.
What is a keel?
equipped with
What are perching feet?
1 characteristic that distinguishes these from other types of birds
What is their ability to hunt by using grasping feet?
Ducks, geese and swan are in this category of Water Birds.
What is waterfowl?
True or False: Game birds fly often and build nests high off the ground.
What is false?
Largest living bird
What is an ostrich?
A trait that describes how their young hatch featherless and helpless
What is altricial?
Although considered scavengers instead of hunters, these birds are also considered birds of prey.
What are vultures?
These birds eat by going "bottoms up" and stretching their long necks.
What are swans?
This type of game bird is part of the only group of birds that does not provide care for their young after hatching.
What is megapodes?
Location of penguins that do not live in Antarctica
Where is Galapagos Islands, New Zealand, Africa, Australia, or South America?
A type of perching bird that is nocturnal and uses camoflage
What is a tawny frog-mouth bird?
The world's fastest bird
What is the peregrine falcon?
What are pelicans?
Tropical birds live here
Where is near the equator?
Type of bird used for its meat, which tastes like lean beef, and its hide, which makes leather.
What is an ostrich?
The bird with some of the largest flight muscles relative to their size
What is the hummingbird?
A bird of prey that, instead of flying, usually hunts on the ground for snakes, rodents and insects.
What is the secretary bird?
This bird can fly at heights over 23,000 feet during their migratory travels.
What are geese?
Heaviest species of parrot and only species of parrot that cannot fly
What is the kakapo?
Structural difference in the bones of flightless birds compared to most other birds
What is solid bones?