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| Epidermal structure with beta keratin |
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| Contour, semi-plume, filo-plume, bristle feathers, down and powder down |
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| Flight feathers (contour) |
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| Eumelanin, phaeomelanin, carotenoids, porphyrins |
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| Species is sleek and glossy in the summer, spotted in the winter |
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| Species has toe comb to get rid of parasites |
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| Whole skin can secrete oil compounds |
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| Species that performs active anting |
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| Species that does passive anting |
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| Species that moult once a year |
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| Geese, swans, woodpeckers, owls, grouse, chickadee |
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| Species that mout twice a year |
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| Loon, sandpipers, warblers. |
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| Species that do synchronous moulting |
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| Two main forces to overcome in flight |
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| High speed, high-aspect ratio, slotted high-lift and elliptical. |
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| SPecies has heavier than normal bones |
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| Loon, to help it sink when diving. |
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| Keratinzied structure we see on the bill |
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| Term for the ability to move upper and lower jaw |
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| Probe on the tip of the bill that helps with probing |
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| Tongue that can loop around inside of skull |
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| Pushes jugal arch and palatine to open bill |
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| Organ used for storage of food, connected to esaphagous |
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| Organ used to grind up food |
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| Species that has a diet of conifer needles |
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| Contains bacteria to help digest food |
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| Species able to crush a cherry pit with break |
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| Bird with specialized beak to pry open cones |
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| Used bill to beat their prey to death |
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| Color, concentrated in fovea |
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| Give sharp vision straight ahead |
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| Sharp vision in laterial view |
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| Red-tailed hawk, broad-winged hawk |
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| Type of hawk that chases down its prey |
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| Peregrin falcon, American kestral, merlin |
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| Bird hawks, hunt on wing through trees |
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| Packed with glycogen, black and white vision |
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| Has reversable toe to help with catching fish |
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| Have serrations on bills that act like teeth |
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| Species that can spear fish with bill |
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| Two solutions to the problem of ingesting salt |
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| Salt gland, oversized kidneys |
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| Impales extra food on branches to store for winter |
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| Wrap food in saliva and hide thousands of stores. Incredible spatial memory |
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| Part of brain that deals with spatial memory |
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| Species with irruptive feeding pattrns |
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| Bohemian Waxwing, white-winged crossbills and great grey owls |
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| Species that exhibits complete migration |
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| Species that exhibits partial migration |
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| Species that exhibit differential migration |
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