1 / 17

Light, Toothless beak

Light, Toothless beak. Center of gravity. Gizzard instead of teeth. Large “keeled” sternum. Tail bones lost/fused Into pygostyle. Powering flight. Static soaring. Light or dark meat? It’s all about flight physiology!. Powering flight muscles. So unidirectional flow

JasminFlorian
Download Presentation

Light, Toothless beak

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Light, Toothless beak Center of gravity Gizzard instead of teeth Large “keeled” sternum Tail bones lost/fused Into pygostyle

  2. Powering flight

  3. Static soaring

  4. Light or dark meat? It’s all about flight physiology!

  5. Powering flight muscles

  6. So unidirectional flow What’s the advantage??

  7. Coordinating flight Cerebellum Bird Brain

  8. Secondary cavity nesters Primary cavity nesters

  9. Altricial Precocial Sex determined by sex chromosomes, not temperature

  10. Attracting a mate

  11. Song from Syrinx “double flute”

  12. Migration Shearwater 40,000 miles/year

  13. Blackpoll Warbler 15 g ----2 for one stamp 80-90 hours nonstop Migrate Canada to South America Neotropical migrant Red + yellow =12000 miles If they were burning gasoline instead of fat, they'd be getting about 720,000 miles to the gallon

More Related