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Birds Flashcards

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Passeriformes

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Songbirds

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Psittaformes

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Psittacines

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Anseriformes

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Waterfowl

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Ciconiformes

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Waterbirds

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Falconiformes

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Raptors

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Galliformes

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Fowl

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What bird stresses the easiest

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Finches

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Ornithology

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The study of birds

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Aviculture

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The practice of keeping/breeding birds

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Things owners need to consider when purchasing a bird

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Cost, time devoted, space, longevity

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Egg laying

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Oviparous

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11
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What are feathers made out of

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Keratin

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Pygostyle

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Tail

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Pterylae

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Feathered tracts

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Apterylae

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Featherless tracts

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The bases of the flight feathers are covered with smaller contour feathers called

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Coverts

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Uropygial

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Oil substance that cleans

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Patagium

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Wing web that assists with flexibility and aerodynamics of flight

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Tetrapods

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Having 4 limbs

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Uropygial gland are more prominent in what 2 birds

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Waterfowl, water birds

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This is along the sternum and provides attachment of the pectoral muscles

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Keel

21
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Fusion of the first thoracic vertebrae

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Notarium

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Fusion of the caudal thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and Caudal vertebrae

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Synsacrum

23
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% of body weight is skeleton

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5%

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Pectoral girdle consists of what 3 things

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Coracoid, clavicle, scapula

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Pneumatic bones

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Proximal bones that are air-filled which connect to the respiratory tract

27
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what to use for IO

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proximal part of distal bone

28
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the primary nitrogenous waste in avians

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uric acid

29
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a pecten is a pigmented structure that

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provides nutrients to the vitreous

30
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bony ring that supports to eye bones

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sclerotic ring

31
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the ureters empty into the ___, the common emptying chamber for GI, reproductive, urinary systems

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cloaca

32
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which sense is highly developed

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visual

33
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sound producing structure just cranial to bifurcation of trachea

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syrinx

34
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flap of tissue just inside the nostrils

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operculum

35
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V- shaped slit on roof of mouth-communicates with nasal passageways

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choanal slit

36
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how many air sacs

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9

37
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3 things a bird lacks in resp. system

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diaphragm, epiglottis, vocal cords

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proventriculus

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true glandular stomach

39
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ventriculus

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gizzard- muscular stomach

40
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crop

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stores food and has peristaltic waves. part of esophagus

41
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what is the coelomic cavity

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a birds abdomen

42
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homogamete vs heterogamete

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homogamete- ZZ

heterogamete- ZW

43
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clutch

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the # of eggs a female lays and incubates

44
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anticoagulant of choice

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lithium heparin

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