1. Class Aves: Birds GA State Game Bird – Bob White Quail
GA State Bird – Brown Thrasher

2. Peregrine falcon
African gray parrot
Great horned owl
Blue heron
Peahen and peacock

3. Basic Characteristics of Birds
What makes birds different from other animals?
Describe their skeleton.
What characteristics reveal their close ancestry to reptiles?
How are their eggs different from those of fish and reptiles?
How are birds classified into orders, families, and genus?
Use the websites below or search through other methods.
Kid Zone
Berkeley
Fernbank
Birdwatching

4. What is WRONG with this picture?

5. Facts about Birds How many living species of birds are there?
Describe some extreme birds: fastest, largest, etc.
Use the websites below or search through other methods.
PBS

6. More Info……
Bird or Reptile?
Fossil Museum
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx

7. 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

8. 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

9. Bird Internal Anatomy Digestive System Excretory System
List, in order, the organs/structures that food passes trough a bird’s 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

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

11. Bird Internal Anatomy Nervous System (Brain and Senses) Reproduction
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

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

13. Bird Feet

14. 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

15. 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.