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Question | Answer |
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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 |
What is a bird of prey? | a carnivorous bird (hawk, falcon, eagle, etc.) that kills and eats small mammals. |
what is a Carrion? | decaying flesh of a dead body. |
what is 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 |
what is a Crop | a sac between the esophagus and stomach that stores food until the bird is ready to begin digestion |
what a Down feathers | fluffy feathers designed to help insulate and keep a bird warm |
What is a drag? | anything that hinders or hampers the speed; something that pulls you down |
What is a fledge? | the rearing of a young bird until it has grown its feathers and is able to fly and leave the nest |
What are flight feathers? | special contour feathers that help a bird get off the ground, move in the air, and land safely |
What is Fovea? | a rodless area of the retina enabling a bird of prey acute vision |
What is a Gizzard? | a special muscle of the stomach that helps the digestive process by grinding and crushing hard-to-digest food; acts like teeth |
What is Keratin? | a tough, fibrous protein; the basic substance of hair, nails, horns, feathers, shafts, etc. |
What is Molt? | to shed feathers, skin, horns, etc. before replacement with new growth |
What is Monocular vision? | seeing two different objects at the same time; a different object per eye |
What is Nictitating membrane? | a transparent third eyelid hinged at the lower lid of the eye of raptors, and closes laterally across the eye |
What is an Ornithologist? | an individual that studies birds |
What is a Pellet? | the unusable and undigested material that a bird cannot process for nutrients, and is regurgitated in the form of a pellet |
What is 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 |
Waht are Vertebrates? | an animal with a backbone or spinal column |
What is Warm blooded | being able to control and maintain a constant body temperature even when the temperature of the environment changes |
Wings | either of the paired organs of flight of a bird, bat, insect, etc. |