Birds: Types

1. Birds: Types Animal Science Level 1

2. Intro Video

3. Unit Map: Birds • Unit Essential Question • What are common characteristics of bird care? • Lesson Questions: • How could bird behavior influence bird ownership? • What are common rules of thumb for all bird care? • What is the best way to prevent parrot disease? • How have birds evolved for flight? • Concepts • Types of Birds • Common Disease • Basic Car • Anatomy • Vocabulary: Fill out daily

4. Warm Up • Where would you find these birds?

5. Essential Question • How could bird behavior influence ownership?

6. Objectives • Identify common pet store birds • Define characteristics of each type of bird • Compare/Contrast types of birds • Concept Map Exercise

7. Common Pet Birds • Parakeet (Budgie) • Small Parrot • Conure • Lovebird • Cockatiel • Finches • Doves • Canaries

8. Parakeet / Budgie • Colors: Rare, Blue, and Green • For ages: 8 & up, with adult supervision • Pet lifespan: approximately 15-25 years • Pet size: approximately 7" in length • Social • 30 minutes of socializing per day • Intelligent • Whistle Tunes • Low talking ability • Other Behavior • Messy eaters

9. Conure • Types: Nanday, Green Cheek, Black Cap, Jenday, Sun, Fancy Green • For ages: 14 & up, with adult supervision • Pet lifespan: approximately 20-30 years • Pet size: approximately 10"-15" in length • Social • 1+ hours of daily interaction • Intelligent • Smart, Easily Trained, “Step-up/Step-down” for easy handling • Behavior • Messy eaters • Noisy • Medium speaking ability

10. Lovebirds • Types: Fisher’s, Peach-faced, Black-Cheek, Nyasa • For ages: 14 & up, with adult supervision • Pet lifespan: approximately 15-20 years • Pet size: approximately 6" in length • Social • 1+ socialization • Intelligent • Easily trained • Behavior • Nest Makers • Chirps (train to whistle)

11. Cockatiels • Colors: Grey, Lutino, Cinnamon, Pied • For ages: 12 & up, with adult supervision • Pet lifespan: approximately 20-30 years • Pet size: approximately 10"-12" in length • Social • 1+ hour of interaction per day • Behavior • Whistlers • Preeners (self groom) • Messy eaters

12. Finches (Song Birds) • Types: Zebra, Society, Manikin, Cordon Blue, Gouldian • For ages: 14 & up, with adult supervision • Pet lifespan: approximately 5 years • Pet size: approximately 5"-6" in length • Social • No handling, enjoy seeing people regularly • Behavior • Males sing • Messy eaters

13. Doves • Types: Rock, Diamond, White, Pink Ring Neck • For ages: 8 & up, with adult supervision • Pet lifespan: approximately 20-25 years • Pet size: approximately 4"-8" in length • Social • 15-30 mins per day, handled and stroked • Behavior • Calm, gentle • Coo (male call) • Need grit (stones for digestion) • Messy eaters

14. Canaries (Song Birds) • Types: Yellow, Red Factor, Fancy • For ages: 14 & up, with adult supervision • Pet lifespan: approximately 5-25 years • Pet size: approximately 5" in length • Social • No handling, like to watch people • Behavior: • Makes sing • High metabolic rate (food always available) • Single or pairs • Messy eaters

15. Vocabulary: Closing • Socialization: behave in a friendly manner • Preen: to trim or dress (feathers, fur, etc.) with the beak or tongue • Parrot: any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets. • Song bird: 1. a bird that sings, any passerine bird of the suborder Oscines • Grit: hard stones, kept in crop, used to help grind (chew) food • Coo: to utter or imitate the soft, murmuring sound characteristic of doves.

16. Activity • Concept Map Page 1 • Types of birds • Build a Concept map for each type of bird (follow first example, use your own paper) • Parakeet (Budgie) • Small Parrot • Conure • Lovebird • Cockatiel • Finches • Doves • Canaries

17. Bird ID Quiz: Get out a sheet of paper please! • 1. Copy this sentence for each question below • This is a _________________. Examples of this type of bird include: _________________ and ______________. _______________ is a common behavior. This might influence bird ownership because _____________________________. B. C. D. A. F. G. E.

18. Birds: Care Animal Science Level 1

19. Warm Up • What might have happened to this bird?

20. Objectives • Understand proper care of domestic birds • Outline general rules for bird care

21. Essential Question • What are common rules of thumb for all bird care?

22. Bird Care: Main Areas • Environment • Food • Water • Enrichment • Illness prevention

23. Environment: Cages • Cages: • As roomy as possible. Able to spread wings & make short flights (exercise) • Metal bars; birds should not be able to fit their heads through • Horizontal: for birds that like to climb (parakeets etc) • Slide out trays for easy cleaning and less anxiety to animal • Draft free area • Daily sunlight • Even temperature

24. Environment: Aviary • Definition: large flying enclosure mimicking a natural environment • Indoor: • You control temperature • Often a room devoted to birds • Windows are wired • Door has a double passage way to prevent escape • Outdoor • Most natural environment • Must have indoor shelter • Wind breaks (prevents drafts, helps block some noise) • Normally all wired and mesh

25. Food: Pros and Cons • Hand Fed: Fed by humans formula via large syringe. • Pros: More hand friendly and tame • Cons: Time consuming, expensive (formula) • Seeds: Mixture, based on shape and size of beak • Pros: Enrichment for animal • Cons: Birds will over indulge • Seed pellet mix: Condensed nutrients in pellets with seeds available • Pros: Great variety for enrichment and nutrition • Cons: Many birds eat around pellets

26. Food: Pros and Cons • Fresh fruit and vegetables • Pros: Enrichment, great way to bond with your animal (sharing food) • Cons: too much can cause damage to digestion system • Grit • Pros: Required for health digestion system of birds • Cons: Some birds are picky with how grit is delivered. • Best practice: Mixtures of seeds, pellets, grit and fresh fruits/vegetables

27. Foods

28. Water: Very Important • Drinking water • Birds should have access at all times to clean drinking water • Common methods of providing water • Provided: Bowls, Gravity watering container • Bathing • Large bowl • No more than 2 inches deep • Most birds must be able to see the bottom • Marbles, stones, colored bottom • Warm to room temperature water • Misting spray bottle as well for thorough cleaning

29. Watering

30. Enrichment • Toys • Puzzles • Chew Toys • Cuddle bones: provide needed minerals, helps trim beaks

31. Enrich-ment • Mirrors • Pros: Birds feel less alone & talk their reflections • Cons: Birds will be more comfortable with reflection and reject owner • Perches • Different sizes, shapes, and textures • Prevents foot stress and injuries

32. Illness Prevention • Tags/ Bands: Used for ID and registration for paperwork • Cleaning routine: Thoroughly clean all perches and bowls. Replace bedding. Fresh seeds and fresh water. • Mite prevention: Mite cartons to help keep mites away from cages. Also available in powder

33. Vocabulary: Closing • Aviary: large flying enclosure mimicking a natural environment • Hand-fed: Fed by humans formula via large syringe. • Enrichment: make better or improve in quality • Cuddle bone: provide needed minerals, helps trim beaks • Perch: Used for sitting: Different sizes, shapes, and textures • Leg Band: Used for ID and registration for paperwork

34. Activity • Compare and Contrast (Use example, then your own paper) Page 2 • Types of bird food • Types of Perches • Design the perfect cage for your bird Page 3 • Use Care sheets on birds • Design a cage based on their needs

35. Birds: Common Diseases Animal Science Level 1

36. Objectives • Identify common Parrot Diseases • Explain common treatment for parrot diseases • Understand symptoms and signs of common parrot diseases

37. Warm Up • Why did this happen?

38. Essential Question • What is the best way to prevent parrot disease?

39. Pacheco's disease • Symptoms: lethargy, diarrhea, ruffled feathers, sinusitis, anorexia, conjunctivitis, and tremors in the neck, wing and legs • Transmission: through infected feces and nasal discharge • Prevention: Quarantine shedding birds, Clean van blades and vents

40. Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease • Symptoms: irreversible loss of feathers, shedding of developing feathers, development of abnormal feathers, new pinched feathers, and loss of powder down • Transmission: through direct contact, inhalation or ingestion of aerosols, crop-feeding, infected fecal material, and feather dust • Prevention: Strict isolation of all diseased birds

41. Feather Plucking • Symptoms: prolific loss of feathers • Transmission: Non transmissible • Prevention: • Birds are very intelligent. They need socialization and enrichment daily. Feather plucking is normally a main symptom of emotional distress or upset

42. Bird Intelligence

43. Avian Salmonella • Symptoms: lethargy, anorexia, and diarrhea, • Transmission: primarily through the air, shed from an infected bird in the nasal and or ocular secretions, fecal material, and feather dust • Prevention: Proper hygiene • Treatment note: Can be treated with Pepto. 2-3 drops by mouth once a day

44. Avian Tuberculosis • Symptoms: sudden death can occur, progressive weight loss in spite of a good appetite, depression, diarrhea, increased thirst, and respiratory difficulty • Transmission: by ingestion and inhalation of aerosolized infectious organisms from feces. • Prevention: minimize stress and overcrowding; Provide proper ventilation; Prevent malnutrition with a proper die

45. Vocabulary: Closing • Lethargy: tired, weak behavior • Powder down: Under feathers, powdered skin from feather coverings • Non-Transmissible: unable to be given to other animals • Shedding: Fluffing off of skin cells (carrying bacteria or viruses) • Aerosol: Air born particles (carrying bacteria or viruses)

46. Activity • You’re the Vet Pages 4 and 5

47. Birds: Gross Anatomy Animal Science Level 1

48. Objectives • List and locate gross avian anatomy • Discuss comparative anatomy • Understand the concept of homology • Get out your packets and you will be working on the Anatomy Pages as we go through the notes. Pages

49. Warm- Up • How are these limbs used?

50. Essential Question • How have birds evolved for flight?