Red Tailed Hawk

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Red Tailed Hawk
Length 18-25 inches
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Barn Owl
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Red Winged Blackbird(displays sexual dimorphism)

• Male Female

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Black Capped Chickadee
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Cardinal

• Female Male

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OspreyOsprey Fishing
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Pileated Woodpecker

• Length17 inches

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Screech Owl

• Length10 inches

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Turkey Vulture
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Mourning Dove
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Eastern Bluebird
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European Starling
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Red Bellied Woodpecker
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Golden Eagle
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Great Horned Owl

• Length 25 inches

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Eastern Wild Turkey

• Female Male

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Coopers Hawk

• Size 14-20 inches

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Bald Eagle

• Fishing video

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Bobwhite
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Robin
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Cedar Waxwing
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Bluejay
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American Goldfinch

• Female Male

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Kingfisher
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Common Flicker
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Rock Doveaka Pigeon
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Peregrine Falcon

• Length15-21 inches

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BONUS 2
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BONUS 3
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BONUS 4
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Birds Classification

• Kingdom Animalia
• Phylum Chordata
• Subphylum Vertebrata
• Class Aves
• Within the class there are 29 Orders
• 187 Families
• 9600 Species

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Characteristics Unique to Birds

• Have Feathers
• Right aortic arch in heart

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Shared with Mammals

• Endothermic
• 4 chambered heart

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Shard w/ Mammals Cont.

• Large amount of
• parental care

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Shared with Reptiles

• Egg laying
• Egg tooth helps break out of shell
• Scales feathers and on feet
• Skeletal characteristics (many)
• Air sacs (similar to turtles and chameleons)

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Historical

• Incomplete fossil record
• Soft bones do not fossilize well
• Archaeopteryx (ancient wing)
• 1. most primitive bird we know of BUT not
  necessarily the ancestor of birds
• 2. Discovered in 1861 in Germany fossil of
  skeleton with feathers
• 3. From Jurassic period 150 mya

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Archaeopteryx Cont.

• 4. About the size of a crow
• Long tail and teeth like a reptile
• Feathers asymmetrical
• (characteristic of flight)

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Archaeopteryx
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Functions of Feathers

• Flight

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Functions of Feathers

• Insulation

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Courtship behavior
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• Support

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• Communication

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• Sound Amplification

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• Camouflage

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• Carrying Water (African Sand Grouse)

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