Birds Types

Question 1

Answer 1

COMMON OSTRICH
Struthio camelis

M>F
Up to 2m and 150 kg
Live 37-42 years
Herbivores, swallow stones
M: black with whiten the wings and tail
F: grey/ brown
fully grown with adult plumage in 2nd year
Resident
Pair or small flocks
Dry open land, savannah
Protecting by kicking with their large toe-nail

Question 2

Answer 2

Red-billed spurfowl

M>F
yellow eye ring, red bill, legs, feed
Dry savanna, woodland
pairs or coveys up to ten
Residential
Loud and harsh chat-chat-check-check
to alert other animals

Question 3

Answer 3

SWAINSON’s SPURFOWL

m>f
black maxilla and legs, red throat
Vegetation and arthropods
Open Grasland
Resident
Occasionally trilling alarm call

Question 4

Answer 4

HELMETED GUINEAFALL

first year lack of red and blue facial colouration
Males often hold their wings higher
Vegetation and arthropods
mostly savanna and grass land
Resident
Monogamous, pairs when breeding,
Flocks of 15-50
Alert behaviour fast kek, kek, kek, krrrrr

Question 5

Answer 5

White-faced whistling duck

Alarm call similar to the call given in flight (urgent three note whistle)
Lagoons, dams, lakes
doesn’t like fast-flowing water
Diurnal
Plants and intervertebrates
Flocks around 40 (up to several thousand)
Resident