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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are aves? | the Latin word for birds; a special class of vertebrates |
| What is binocular vision? | seeing only one object at a time; both eyes focus on the same object |
| Whats a bird of prey? | a carnivorous bird (hawk, falcon, eagle, etc.) that kills and eats small mammals and other birds |
| What does carrion mean? | decaying flesh of a dead body |
| Whats a cere? | fleshy area above the beak, where the nostrils of most birds are located |
| What are contour feathers? | stiff feathers designed to cover the wings and body of a bird |
| Whats a crop? | a large sac between the esophagus and stomach that stores food until the bird is ready to begin digestion |
| What are aves? | fluffy feathers designed to help insulate and keep a bird warm |
| What does drag mean? | anything that hinders or hampers the speed; something that pulls you down |
| Whats a bird of prey? | a carnivorous bird (hawk, falcon, eagle, etc.) that kills and eats small mammals and other birds |
| What are flight feathers? | decaying flesh of a dead body |
| Whats a cere? | fleshy area above the beak, where the nostrils of most birds are located |
| What are contour feathers? | stiff feathers designed to cover the wings and body of a bird |
| Whats a crop? | a tough, fibrous protein; the basic substance of hair, nails, horns, feathers, shafts, etc. |
| Whats molting? | to shed feathers, skin, horns, etc. before replacement with new growth |
| Whats monocular vision? | seeing two different objects at the same time; a different object per eye |
| Whats a nictitating membrane? | a transparent third eyelid hinged at the lower lid of the eye of raptors, and closes laterally across the eye |
| Whats an ornithologist? | an individual that studies birds |
| Whats a pellet? | the unusable and undigested material that a bird cannot process for nutrients, and is regurgitated in the form of a pellet |
| Whats preening? | a process that most birds do with an oil secreted from a special gland; involves rubbing the oil over its feathers to protect them |
| Whats a raptor? | of or belonging to a group of birds of prey, such as hawks, eagles, falcons, vultures, owls, etc.; Latin word meaning to seize or capture |
| Whats a shaft? | the stem of a feather; the hollow tube that holds the feathers together and in place |
| What are talons? | the lethal weapons of raptors; powerful feet with toes (usually three or four) having sharp ends |
| Whats a vertebrate? | an animal with a backbone or spinal column |
| Whats warm-blooded mean? | being able to control and maintain a constant body temperature even when the temperature of the environment changes |
| What are wings? | either of the paired organs of flight of a bird, bat, insect, etc |
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