Biodiversity - Bird Classification
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jdeatherage2012 on March 23, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Passeriformes | robins, warblers, blue jays, wrens |
| Apodiformes | hummingbirds and swifts |
| Psittaciformes | parrots, parakeets, budgerigars, cockatoos, cockatiels |
| Falconiformes | falcons, hawks, eagles, osprey |
| Galliformes | turkeys, pheasants, grouse, chicken, quail |
| Sphenisciformes | penguins |
| Piciformes | woodpeckers, toucans, honeyguides |
| Ciconiiformes | herons, storks, ibises, egrets |
| Columbiformes | pigeons and doves |
| Struthioniformes | ostrich |
| Strigiformes | owls |
| Anseriformes | swans, geese, and ducks |
| crop milk | fluid that pigeons and doves secrete |
| syrinx | what produces the song in male songbirds |
| flat | type of bill on water fowl |
| parakeet | bird that has two toes forward and two backward |
| trees | where toucans, honeyguides, and woodpeckers live |
| raptors | order falconiformes |
| scavengers | vultures are _________ that hunt from the sky |
| largest | passeriformes is the ______________ order of birds |
| Passeriformes | three toes forward, one backward |
| songbirds | eat nectar, seeds, fruit, insects |
| beak | pigeons' and doves' short _______ is designed for eating fruit or grain |
| fowl | order galliformes is called this |
| penguins | have wings made into flippers, webbed feet, and a layer of fat and feathers |
| ostrich | this bird has two toes on each foot |
| gizzard | galliformes have this to help digest grain |
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