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| Part of shaft that supports the vanes |
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| Two defining characteristics of birds |
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| Main function of contour feathers |
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| Protection, warmth, support, camouflage and flight. |
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| Feathers nearest the tip on wings, power flight. |
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| Feathers closest to body on wing |
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| Functions of Semi-Plume Feathers |
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| Buoyancy, warmth, display |
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| Functions of Filo-plume feathers |
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| Sensory perception for pressure change |
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| Function of Bristle feathers |
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| Protection, easy to clean, some sensory |
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| Function of down feathers |
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| Function of power-down feathers |
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| Waterproofing, forms dust. |
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| Different types of feathers |
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| Contour, semi-plume, filo-plume, bristle, down and powder down |
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| Different types of feathers |
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| Contour, semi-plume, filo-plume, bristle, down and powder down |
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| Produced internally, earthy tones, reinforces feathers |
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| Derived from diet, organge and yellow colors. |
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| Tropical colors and owl browns, breaks down in UV |
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| Type of bird tends to allow their feathers to wear out. |
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| Non-migratory birds' feather re-growth strategy. |
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| Type of bird grows new feathers all year |
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| Migratory birds feather re-growth strategy |
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| Strutural. Refraction of light by air pockets between melanin granules. |
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| Structural, reflection of short wavelength light. |
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| Environmental causes of color |
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| Stained by iron oxides, preening compounds, parasites |
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| Use bill to draw or nibble feathers, pectinate (toe comb) |
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| Stimulated by rubbing, oil keeps feathers supple, anti-bacterial, break down vitamin D. |
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| The process by which some birds can excrete soil through epidermal surface. |
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| Grab an ant and rub it all over. Blue jay. |
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| Squat on colony, American Crow |
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| Generally look the same all year. |
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| Different appearance, alternate plumage and basic plumage. |
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| Drop all feathers at once, flightless for a period of time. |
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| Two problems to acheiving flight |
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| Strategies used to reduce weight |
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| Feathers, no jaws or teeth, pneumatized and reduced bones, no bladder |
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| Shape of wing that creates low pressure on top, high pressure on bottom |
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| Type of feather that minimizes turbulence |
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| High speed, high aspect ratio, slotted high lift and elliptical |
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| Pointed and jet-shaped. Falcons and birds of prey |
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| Large SA, used for soaring long distances. Seas birds, albatross |
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| Used for thermal soaring, each finger creates lift. Vultures |
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| Generalist wing, good for forest. Crows, songbirds |
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| Two main problems to overcome for flight. |
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| Adaptations to reduce weight. |
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| Feathers, no jaws or teeth, reduced and pneumatized bones, no bladder. |
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| Wing shape that creates high pressure below and low pressure above wing. Generates lift. |
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| Lifts wings. Located under wing and attached through hole to the top of the bone. |
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| Wish bone, thought to aid in breathing |
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| Keratinized structure of the bill |
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| Structure on end of a bill used to probe in the mud. |
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| Feature that allows tongue to loop back into skull. |
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| Premaxillary. Moves by cranial facial hinge. |
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| Part of bill that allows it to open. |
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| Houses bacteria that aid in digesiton |
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| Intestinal features of fruitivores |
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| Large gapes, small gizzard and short intestines. |
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| Lifestyle of most seed eating birds. |
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| Plucking prey to eat only high-protein tissue. |
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| Eye adaptations for day hunting |
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| Large, oval, lots of cones, two fovea, frontal placement of eyes. |
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| Temporal and central. (daytime hunting) |
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| Sharp vision straight ahead, locks onto prey |
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| Sharp vision for lateral viewing |
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| Buteos, falcons and accipiters |
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| Type of hawk, ambushes prey, suprise instead of speed, broad wings |
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| Type of hawk, high-speed wings for chasing prey. |
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| Bird hawks. short wings, long tail. Manouver through trees to catch prey |
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| Eye adaptations to noctural hunting |
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| Expanded eyes, rods with glycogen, more than one cell per nerve. |
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