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Birds Notes

Birds Notes. Environmental Science Mr. Clark. Bird Classification. Ornithology: the study of birds Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves (Birds) 28 Major orders 8600 Living species. Bird Features. Scales Feathers Head Neck Trunk Tail. Bird Features. Head Features. :

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Birds Notes

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  1. Birds Notes Environmental Science Mr. Clark

  2. Bird Classification • Ornithology: the study of birds • Kingdom: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Class: Aves (Birds) • 28 Major orders • 8600 Living species

  3. Bird Features • Scales • Feathers • Head • Neck • Trunk • Tail

  4. Bird Features

  5. Head Features : Eyebrow stripe (or superciliary line, above the eye) Eye line (line through the eye) Crown stripe (stripe in the midline of the head) Eye ring (ring of color around eye) Throat patch Color of the lore (area between base of beak and eye) Whisker mark (also called mustache or malar stripe) Color of upper and lower beak Presence or absence of crest Beak shape and size are also important identifying characteristics.

  6. Bird Features • Wings • Bones that are light and strong with air spaces • Beaks or bill • No teeth • Four chambered heart

  7. Bird Features • No bladder • Internal fertilization, external development • Eggs with a shell • Warm blooded

  8. Bird Organ Systems • Respiratory system • Digestive system • Excretory system • Nervous system • Circulatory system • Reproductive system

  9. Respiratory System • Trachea • Syrinx • Bronchus • Lung • Anterior air sac • Posterior air sac

  10. Digestive System • Crop • Gizzard • Proventriculas • Intestine • Rectum • Cloaca

  11. Excretory System • No bladder • Uric acid and fecal matter are stored in the cloaca • White semi-solid material is released

  12. Circulatory System • Four chambered heart • Warm blooded

  13. Nervous System • Larger brain • Well developed cerebellum • Poor sense of taste and smell • Highly developed sense of sight, hearing, and balance

  14. Reproductive System • No external sex organs • Contact of cloacas

  15. Reproductive System • Fertilization in reproductive tract

  16. Reproductive System • Eggs have a hard shell which retains moisture • Eggs are incubated

  17. Reproductive System • Eggs have a hard calcium shell • Eggs have four extra-embryonic membranes • Chorion • Allantois • Amnion • Yolk sac

  18. Feathers • Grow from follicles in the skin • Color patterns are typical to each species • Pigments in epidermal cells of the feather give it it’s color

  19. Feather Parts • Quill • Shaft • Vane

  20. Feather Parts • Barb • Barbules • Hook

  21. Feathers • Preening • Molting • Flight or contour feathers • Down feathers • Oil glands

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