Bird anatomy

It was a normal day like any day in the year 3000 and little Evan was lonely, for he had no one to play with since all the other kids didn’t really like him. He appeared, from the point of from everyone around him, too smart for a 6 year old. The thing the kids didn’t know was that he had a photographic memory, so anything he saw he could recall perfectly at any given moment. Evan’s parents were mad scientist and always gave him books for him to read. They also lived underwater. So one afternoon after a particularly hard day for Evan he decided he was going to make a robot so fun that all the kids in the neighborhood would have to be his friend. It took him awhile but finally he decided to make a duck robot, one that had blue eyes and a orange beak with red feathers. After 16 days he had finally done it! He made the duckbot but thought to himself, what are people going to say about just one duckbot? That wasn’t fun enough, he needed multiple. After making 99 more duckbots Evan decided that was enough, it was time to test them. So he went to the backyard with his duckbots and started to play with them, but then he realized that he had not programmed them how to play, and he thought the other children wouldn’t like that. After several days of programming and debugging, it hit him on the third night - he should give the ducks free will! If they had the choice to play, Evan reasoned, then why wouldn’t they? The next day Evan went back to all the duckbots and finalized their…

DUAL LOCOMOTION BY B. SIDELL ABSTRACT -- Puffins, one of the few wing-propelled diving birds, are specialized into a specific niche. By balancing the optimization of their bodies for locomotion between the two media of air and sea water created a unique anatomy for a bird. The evolution of Auks, which includes the puffin, shows a mixture of characteristics similar to those of the ultimate diving bird, the penguin, and the large-winged flyers, such as the pelican. Wing-propelled diving has…

Greater Flamingos What is a famous bird you see at the zoo a lot? The correct answer is a Greater Flamingo, also known as Phoenicopterus which is the flamingos scientific name. The Greater Flamingo has an unusual anatomy, graceful habitat, and a strange but beautiful way of moving around to make this odd yet graceful bird. The Greater Flamingo regularly live in marshy areas; seas, marshes, and lakes. "Found in America from the Bahamas, Tierra del Fuego including the Galapagos Island and…

1-Introduction: Parrots are bird from class Aves also known as Psittacines .The parrots are a broad order of more than 372 species in 86 genera. It’s found in most tropical and subtropical regions that have warm climates such as Australasia, Central America and South America. Some parrot do not like warm weather so they live in snowy climates .There many birds consider as parrots like Macaws, Amazons, Lorikeets, Lovebirds and Cockatoos. The parrots have curved beaks and all are zygodactyls…

First, as archosaurs, dinosaurs possessed the archosaur respiratory system that is observable in modern birds and crocodiles. Since the one-way archosaur respiratory system is highly-efficient, it could have supplied ample oxygen to support a high metabolism and endothermy in dinosaurs. Second, dinosaurs possess feathers, which would have aided in insulating an internally maintained body temperature and hindered ectothermy. Finally, dinosaurs (in many cases) possess anatomies formidable for…

To the human eye, birds are one of the most beautiful and eye catching in all of nature’s creations. Even a single stray of a feather has many wonders and secrets in itself. It’s form, delicacy and it’s coloring for example. With each of these they have the power to be overwhelming. There are many families of birds well known for spectacular visual impact of their plumage. One family of birds that stands out from the rest, not just because of the extravagant appearance of many of its…

(Guskiewicz & Mihalik, 2011). On average, a football player can sustain up to 75 g of linear acceleration during a hit, resulting in this slosh-induced injury. However, there was no scientific evidence that explains how a woodpecker, who experiences hits of over 1000 g while pecking a tree does not experience any type of head trauma. In 2011, a team of researchers launched a scientific study to investigate this phenomenon. The researchers looked at the behavior of the great spotted…

the falcon, which is conditioned by another feature of their anatomy, their beaks. A decurved bill such as the one present in Numenius arquata has numerous advantages over a straight bill for such foraging on mudflats. Foraging Curlews use probing as a way to take their prey from the soil surface. Nebel, Jackson, & Elner (2005) define probing as a foraging technique that consists in inserting the bill into the sediment, allowing the capture of invertebrates that live below the surface (infaunal…

Unit 1 Written Assignment Question: For the purposes of this assignment, you are to choose an adaptive trait common to more than one species. For example, birds and bats both have wings. Write a 2-3 page (500 – 750 words, 12-point font) paper including the following elements. a. Describe what makes this trait an adaptation. Answer: For this assignment, I will choose an adaptive trait wings. Both birds and bats both have a trait that enables them to fly. Bats: The bats wings enables it to get a…

When we think of birds we usually tend to imagine them above our heads flying high in the sky. We tend to forget that some of them live in extremely cold environments and can actually swim deep underwater for sufficient amount of time. These strange birds are referred to as penguins. These birds tend to baffle us because of their similarities and different traits compared to their flying relatives. Exactly why and how did they began to develop differently from other birds? So what is the…