Bird Adaptations

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Bird Adaptations
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Beaks

• Probing hummingbird
• Drilling woodpecker
• Cracking macaw, finch
• Spearing great blue heron
• Tearing hawk
• Filtering - duck

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Probing beak

• The hummingbirds beak allow it to sip nectar
  from flowers. Some birds have probing beaks that
  allow them to find food in sand or mud.

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Drilling beak

• Also referred to as a chisel-type beak, a
  woodpecker can locate and extract insects below
  the surface of a trees bark.

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Cracking beak

• Many birds that eat seeds must be able to crack
  open the hull that surrounds the seed. Birds such
  as finches and sparrows do this.

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Spearing Beak

• These birds have a beak with serrated edges and a
  hooked tip that helps them catch fish or minnows.
  The heron is such a bird.

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Tearing Beak

• Birds of prey such as the eagle, hawk, falcon,
  and owl use their beak to tear their food into
  small pieces they can swallow.

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Filtering Beak

• The bill of a duck is fringed to allow mud and
  water to escape while straining plants, seeds,
  and small animals for it to eat.

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Beaks 1st Trial 2nd Trail 3rd Trial 4th Trial 5th Trial Average
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Activities

• http//askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Biologi
  cal/BIO0116.html - Animal Adaptations Focus on
  Bird Beaks
• http//www.tenet.edu/teks/science/stacks/instruct/
  vistas/5th_grade.html - Eaks! Beaks!
• http//projects.edtech.sandi.net/pershing/birds/de
  signabird.htm - Design a Bird