Birds

Question 1

Perching songbirds

Answer 1

Passeriformes or passerines, the name means sparrow-shaped. Sparrow, wren, starling.

Question 2

Cavity nesters

Answer 2

use cavities resulting from decay, or use holes created by other species in dead or deteriorating trees. Brown headed nuthatch, wood pecker, pileated woodpecker.

Question 3

Wading birds and vultures

Answer 3

long legged birds. herons, storks. vultures are birds of prey with bare necks. black vulture, turkey vulture, king vulture.

Question 4

marine birds

Answer 4

birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. Atlantic puffin, common gull, black tailed gull

Question 5

Penguin

Answer 5

large flightless seabird. emperor penguin, macaroni penguin, Galapagos penguin.

Question 6

Owls

Answer 6

nocturnal bird of prey with large forward-facing eyes surrounded by facial disks, a hooked beak. horned owl, screech owl, barn owl.

Question 7

Flightless birds

Answer 7

breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles. ostrich, cassowary, kiwi.

Question 8

waterfowl

Answer 8

Ducks, geese and swan.