What%20are%20Birds?

1
What are Birds?

• Read each slide.
• Look at each picture.
• Answer each question.

2

• All birds have feathers.

3

• Feathers
• come in
• spectacular
• colors.

4

• Bird feathers are called plumage.

5

• All birds have feathers,

6

• but not all
• birds can fly.
• A penguin
• has flippers
• instead of
• wings.

7

• A penguin flies through the water instead of the
  sky.

8

• An ostrich
• has feathers,
• but can not
• fly.

9

• An ostrich uses its strong legs to run very fast.

10

• All birds have feathers. Their feathers and
  bones are hollow so they are very light.

11

• Birds have a hard beak
• instead of teeth.

12

• Each beak has adapted to the type of food each
  bird eats.
• This bird stabs fish for dinner.

13

• These birds eat seeds for dinner.

14

• The eagle eats meat for dinner.

15

• Birds lay eggs.

16

• Baby birds hatch out and say,
• FEED ME!

17

• Big birds lay
• big eggs
• OSTRICH EGG

18

• Birds first took to the air 150 million years ago.

19

• Scientists think that birds are descended
  from
  dinosaurs.

20

• Many animals can fly.
• Many animals lay eggs.
• But only birds have feathers!

21

• QUIZ
• What do birds have that no other animals have?
  ___________________________
• Name a bird that does not fly. ________
• Why are beaks different shapes?______
• What is plumage? _________________
• How are baby birds born? ___________