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Class Aves:

Class Aves: . The Aquatic Birds Of Southeast Texas. What makes a bird AQUATIC?. Beak structure Foot structure Leg length Neck length . A spearlike beak indicates a fish diet!. Snowy Egret . Long legs indicate a stalking method of hunting. Common Egret. Great Blue Heron.

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Class Aves:

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  1. Class Aves: The Aquatic Birds Of Southeast Texas

  2. What makes a bird AQUATIC? • Beak structure • Foot structure • Leg length • Neck length

  3. A spearlike beak indicates a fish diet! Snowy Egret Long legs indicate a stalking method of hunting. Common Egret

  4. Great Blue Heron Yellow-crowned Night-heron Green Heron

  5. Anhinga More fish-eaters, but short legs indicate a swimmer! Double-crested Cormorant

  6. Common Merganser Common Loon

  7. Short neck and legs, no webbed feet, but spearlike beak – how does this bird fish? A – by diving Belted Kingfisher

  8. The chickenlike beak alllows these birds to eat plant material. Pied-billed Grebe American Coot Common Moorhen

  9. The Sora – another chickenlike aquatic bird.

  10. The gull’s and killdeer’s beaks allow for general purpose feeding, while the sandpiper’s bill makes an excellent probe. Ringed-billed Gull Spotted Sandpiper Killdeer

  11. Long legs allow ibis and storks to wade, but with narrower decurved beaks, they feed on invertebrates. White Ibis

  12. Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Hooded Merganser Scooped bill makes an excellent strainer for plants, invertebrates, even small fish! Ducks! Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Webbed feet and short, powerful legs for effective swimming Mallard Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal

  13. A Crayfish’s nightmare: Hawks by day, Owls by night Red-shouldered Hawk Barred Owl

  14. Bald Eagle Strong talons and heavy beaks allow these raptors to prey on fish! Osprey

  15. Swallows are often seen by water because their wide gapes and fluid flight make them supreme insectivores! Purple Martin Barn Swallow

  16. Warblers and wrens also hunt for insects, using their needle-like beaks to probe amongst the foliage. Marsh Wren Common Yellowthroat

  17. Male Female The triangular beak of the Red-winged Blackbird, signifies an all omnivorous diet of insects, fruits, and seeds.

  18. Avian Aquatics Assignment Avian Construction With your partner, draw OR make a model of TWO imaginary aquatic birds – one plant eater, one fish eater - then describe in a brief paragraph the features you have included the make it suitable for an aquatic lifestyle. DUE tomorrow – Friday, 3 December, at beginning of period.

  19. Place the birds in this presentation in their proper order. Then find the family of each. Construct a cladogram with this information. Order Gaviiformes Order Anseriformes Order Coraciiformes Order Strigiformes Order Gruiformes Order Ciconiiformes Order Passeriformes http://www.earthlife.net/birds/orders.html

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