A Beka Grade 7 Science 7.5 Types of Birds

bowerbird

Renowned for their unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly coloured objects in an attempt to attract a mate

pelicans

Seabirds with a pouch below beak

hummingbird

a tiny bird whose wings move so fast they make a humming sound, beats its wings 52 times per second

What is the world's smallest bird?

bee hummingbird

raptor

bird of prey

secretary bird

bird of prey in Africa having long legs and is a good runner. Instead of flying, it hunts on the ground for snakes, rodents, and insects

altricial birds

birds that hatch featherless

trogons

brightly colored tropical birds

waterfowl

ducks, geese, swans

penguins

flightless bird associated with Antarctica

tawny frog-mouth

from Australia, nocturnal, well camouflaged, while resting they look like a broken tree branch

megapode

group of game birds are the only birds in world not to provide any parental care for their young after hatching

nuthatch

has perching feet, but is a well known climber. known for climbing down a tree trunk headfirst

precocial

hatched or born in an advanced state and able to feed itself almost immediately.

game birds

includes pheasants, grouse, and turkeys

perching birds

includes songbirds and wrens, most have perching feet, some have climbing feet, chicks hatch featherless

water birds

includes swimming birds like waterfowl, pelicans. and grebes and wading birds like flamingos, gulls, and herons

ostrich

largest and fastest running bird, only bird to have 2 toes on each foot

tropical birds

live in warm regions near the equator

galapagos penguin

lives on the Galapagos Islands at the equator

Which birds are the only ones not to provide parental care for their young after hatching?

megapodes

Where do most game birds nest?

on the ground

emperor penguin

only penguin to live on Antarctica year-round

What is the only bird with two toes on each foot?

ostrich

flightless birds

ostriches, emus, kiwis, rheas, and cassowaries; do not have a keel on the sternum, because of this, their pectoral muscles cannot be large enough for flight

What type of bird has a characteristic parch of bare skin at the base of the bill?

parrot

Which flightless swimming birds have keels on their breastbone?

penguins

6 basic categories of birds

perching, game, tropical, flightless, birds of prey, water birds

Are megapode chicks altricial or precocial?

precocial

birds of prey

raptors; carnivorous (meat eater) distinguished for their ability to hunt suing their feet. Group includes falcons, eagles, hawks, krestels, ospreys

Which African bird of prey hunts on the ground?

secretary bird

screech owl

small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers whose call sounds like a quavering whistle

bald eagle

the national bird of the United States, lives only in North America, wingspan of 8 ft.

forty

the number of different orders of birds

peregrine falcon

the worlds fastest bird, hunts pigeons and other small birds. Can reach speeds of 200 miles per hour

Why must ostriches nest on the ground?

they cannot fly

parrots

tropical birds including macaws, parakeets, lorikeets, budgerigars, lovebirds, cockatoos