Class Aves: Birds

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Class Aves Birds
GA State Game Bird Bob White Quail
GA State Bird Brown Thrasher
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Peregrine falcon
African gray parrot Great horned owl
Blue heron
Peahen and peacock
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Basic Characteristics of Birds

1. What makes birds different from other animals?
2. Describe their skeleton.
3. What characteristics reveal their close ancestry
   to reptiles?
4. How are their eggs different from those of fish
   and reptiles?
5. How are birds classified into orders, families,
   and genus?

Use the websites below or search through other
methods. Kid Zone Berkeley Fernbank Bi
rdwatching
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What is WRONG with this picture?
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Facts about Birds

1. How many living species of birds are there?
2. Describe some extreme birds fastest, largest,
   etc.

Use the websites below or search through other
methods. PBS
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More Info
Bird or Reptile?
Fossil Museum
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx
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Bird Feathers

• What are the functions of feathers?
• Feathers and Plumages
• What are the primary types of feathers? Include
  a small sketch of each type. How are each of
  these types used by the bird?
• KidWings

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Bird External Anatomy

• Label the diagram of the bird using these terms
• Belly Nape
• Bill Rump
• Breast Tail
• Crown Tarsus
• Eyebrow Throat
• Foot Wing
• Mantle
• Research pictures to help you

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Bird Internal Anatomy

• Digestive System
• List, in order, the organs/structures that food
  passes trough a birds digestive system
• Bird Digestion
• Excretory System
• What is unusual about birds excretion?
• What is the name of the excretory product?
• Use your book to find the answer quickly

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Bird Internal Anatomy

• Respiratory System
• Summarize the unique characteristics of bird
  respiration
• Bird Respiration
• or use your book
• Circulatory System
• - Birds have a ____ chambered heart, just like
  ____.

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Bird Internal Anatomy

• Nervous System (Brain and Senses)
• Compare the bird brain and senses to other
  animals
• Your book is the best resource here.you could be
  searching forever!
• Reproduction
• Birds have very complex reproductive
  activities.name them
• See text book
• 90 of all birds have only one mate. This is
  called _____. Click here for answer.
• Describe how birds achieve internal fertilization
  and describe development of egg/embryo
• See textbook

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Bird Beaks

• Look at the different types of beaks and their
  functions
• Bird Beaks

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Bird Feet
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Bird Orders

• How many orders of birds are there on Earth?
• Use your research skills.no Wikipedia!
• Maybe.do the next question first
• Pick three orders and describe their members.
• Orders of Birds

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Pick a Bird

• Choose a bird that you would like to know more
  about
• Use Cornell's Ornithology Lab to help with your
  research
• Be sure to include taxonomy, habitat, unusual
  characteristics, relatives, etc.