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doves and pigeons can suck water
important game species
High rate of reproduction.
1 to 5 nests a year
Rapid development of egg..
The DoDo bird is an extinct one. |
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6 Mesitornithiformes
Mesitornithiformes |
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Mesites
are elated to doves
3 species threatened
endemic to Madagascar
chicken sized ground dwellers
poor fliers long bill for insects
2 are monogamous , 1 polygyny |
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sandgrouse 16 species
Afrotropical , Southern Paleartic, Northern Indomala
Dry habitat ... like deserts
granivores fly up to 100 miles a day for water Crop is modified sub pouch ac t like acanteen, holds water 24 hours
for chicks breast feathers are cap shaped lots of hammuli chicks drink from the feathers
They can suck waters like a dove |
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118 species, 5 in Oklahoma
all major biogeographic realm
night jars , night hawks ,
frog mouths , potoos , goat suckers
BIG mouths Vestigal bills with rectal bristles , tiny fee, cannot walk they can hold on .. sit on top of things
Vocalized birds names from calls are the origin of names have to rest during the day
Plumage for diurnal roosting
Masters of camouflage eyes closed but the can see with them closed..
Oil birds cave nests and roosts deep into cave only bird to use ecolocation for flying in cave... humand can her it |
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swifts and hummingbirds
429 species world wide; Oklahoma 7 mostly hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are neartic and neotropical
The have pamprodactyl fee
all 4 digits are forward
legs vestigial cannot hop or walk
Pamprodactyl feet |
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| The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico |
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| Pamprodactyl foot has all four toes in front, as seen in most swifts (Family Apodidae). The first and fourth digits pivot freely foreword |
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| What order are hummingbird |
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| what about ostrich feet? vs Emu feet |
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Ostrich have two toes (emu and rhea have 3).
Ostrich has didactylous feet with only 2 toes ..toes face forward |
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highly Volant - the most efficient fliers
fast complex flight pattern
builds nest out of spider webs
Coevolution of flower and hummingbirds
100 mph
energy demanding
up to 79 wing beats per second |
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| 10 Order Opisthocomiformes |
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The only living species is the Hoatzin
neotropics
specialized folivores
crops modified into fermentation chambers sun
they are zygodactyl 2 front, 2 back
Nestling have 3 wing claws |
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cuckcoos anis roadrunners
138 species- all realms '
4 species in Oklahoma
black billed blue in tropical
slinder bodies, slouchy birds tails long "loose"
Anis - graduate tail slender bills zygodactyl feet insectivorous some opportunists
they can eat catepillers and shed the lining and flush out the spines
are rain crows.. calls rain
brood parasite in some.. twie thesize of the host, love to eat snakes and lizard eggs Can do 25 mph sprint |
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taracos plantain eaters
23 species Afrotropican not in the USA. Large Crest. leaf eater..
saws off pieces of leafs .. serrated bills.. semi zygodaetyl feet.. walking unisadactyl
perch zygodactyil Unique colors
pigment in this order only
porphyrins - liver- bile-- hemoglobin fast degraded.
Turacin Turacoverdin only brid green .. not in Oklahoma |
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Penguins 17 species Oceans in Southern hemisphere ..
diving .. fly underwater . rely on wings ..most diving birds use feet. wings are flippers. locked in place wrist can't bend hands
bones are large and dense not as hollow.
No apteria (areas of bare skin)
feathers are tightly locked together with barbicel
scale like feathers .. water tight
a lot of fat.
carnivores=fish and squid
deep divers 900 ft.. 20 minutes almost as good as marine animals
monogamous 1-2 eggs males tend to eggs females care for young over 100 degrees .. no preditors ..social order for when on the out side of the ring to keep warm
There are no penguins in artic circle |
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| 14 Order Procellariiformes |
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Tube nosed sea birds: albatrosses, Petrel, shearwaters, and prions
112 species Oceanic worldwide most common in Southern hemisphere.
Life style: stay at sea except to nest
Salt glands -
SMELL FISH TO FIND SCHOOLS FORAGE BY SMELL
PISEIVOROUS=EAT FISH - piseivorous
nostrils on top of bill is a tube that extends to near the end of the bill.
long lived 50 years
Wisdom is the oldest living Albatross
68 year old, still having babies
1 chick every 2 years.. wisdom has one a year ..20+ off springs.
slower, low reproduction size larger live longer
reproduce less often have fewer young
example: Wandering Albatross, 12 ft wing spand
1st reproduction at 5 yr old
one nesting and takes 1 year to raise.
conservation concern
feed young stomach oil predigested..puke if attacked
Moli.. duel meaning highest frequency of female/female pairing
hard for them to land. not in OK. |
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| 15 Order Phaethontiformes |
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Tropical birds
3 species
Pantropical / oceanic
not in Oklahoma
pisciverous
relationship to other birds = a mess
Totipalmale = all 4 toes connect with paddles ..fully palmate, webbed.
plunge and dive stout bills
central rectrices are very long ..streamers 11-12 inches
nest in cliffs monogamous |
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Pelican True herons and egrets Ibises Shorebirds
They eat ducks |
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cormorants frigate bird gannets boobies and darters
60 species world wide
all are aquatic all piscivorase
aerial divers chase after them underwater kleptoparasitism . stealfish from birds friget steals sticks for nests sharp bill .. aggressive .. big pouch
Cormorants funny dance .. spread winds out to dry blue feet
Gannets have long pointed bill ..flip fish
in air and swallow juggle
all you see is a neck .. look like snakes small jugular pouch totipalmate not in Oklahoma |
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loons Holartic all northern hemisphere
5 species, 4 in Oklahoma
YOU WILL IDENTIFY ON LAB TEST probably
common loon
can't walk have propeller like legs and feet Palmate feet
dive and pursue fish underwater
legs are high and far back femur to the side of the body and feet are way back
They are powerful fliers fast off the ground big long wings monogamous strong social |
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Rails, coots, cranes bustards Kagus Liptins sunbitterns 212 species world wide
PROBABLY WILL BE ON LAB TEST to identify
highly variable majority of species prefer water's edge. most cranes are upland many are endangered rails have a hunting season whooping crane breed in Canada nests on Texas coast
slow to reproduce babies don't survive
THE heaviest flying bird is the bustard, it's about Turkey sized
Sora is a small rail
Coots are mean parents, starve them when they beg |
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sandpipers, gulls, terns, phalaropes, snips
367 species All are somewhere.. so I guess that means wordwide
tend towards aquatic
killdeer... LAB
American Avocet
66 in Oklahoma
Woodcock looks like wood
Snipe
Phalaropes white underneath
Black skimmer longer top ??
Puffin
Tern long upper mandible
Great Auk is extinct
usually dark on typ brown, gray or black light white bottom blends in
And here is reverse counter shading... beaks with very slight decurving LAB TEST probably |
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barn owl (screaming witch)
owls boobooks
great horn gray or red, gray in OK
18 species in all biogeographical realms
9 in Oklahoma
All Nocturnal or crepuscular raptures
zygodactyl ; raptorial feet
strong grip can get skunks
Binocular vision low-set bill large eys
have a lot of rod cells in retinal can cee contrast balck and white can move eyues
soft feather.. silence ..tips lack barbules
excellent hearing.. can hunt in total darkness |
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