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  2. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    Because the beak is a sensitive organ with many sensory receptors, beak trimming or debeaking is "acutely painful" [41] to the birds it is performed on. It is nonetheless routinely done to intensively farmed bird species, because it helps reduce the damage the flocks inflict on themselves due to a number of stress -induced behaviours, including ...

  3. Confuciusornis - Wikipedia

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    In modern birds this is formed by feathers anchored to the first digit of the hand, but this digit appears to have been free of feathers and independent of the body of the wing in Confuciusornis. [9] According to Dieter Stefan Peters, to compensate for the lack of an alula, the third finger might have formed a separate winglet below the main ...

  4. List of birds of North America - Wikipedia

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    The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.

  5. The Bird With the Blood-Thirsty Beak - AOL

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    The vampire finch (Geospiza septentrionalis) is an unusual bird that only lives on two remote islands in the Galápagos: Wolf Island and Darwin Island.These two islands are about 100 miles away ...

  6. Huia - Wikipedia

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    [7] [43] The highly valued pōhoi was an ornament made from the skin of the huia: the bird was skinned with the beak, skull and wattles attached and the legs and wings removed, [7] [18] carefully dried, and the resulting ornament worn from the neck or ears. [12] Dried huia heads were also worn as pendants called ngutu huia. [7]

  7. Bird anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Because of this, birds usually have a smaller number of bones than other terrestrial vertebrates. Birds also lack teeth or even a true jaw and instead have a beak, which is far more lightweight. The beaks of many baby birds have a projection called an egg tooth, which facilitates their exit from the amniotic egg. It falls off once the egg has ...

  8. Beak - Wikipedia

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    Most species of birds have external nares located somewhere on their beak. The nares are two holes—circular, oval or slit-like in shape—which lead to the nasal cavities within the bird's skull, and thus to the rest of the respiratory system. [10] (p375) In most bird species, the nares are located in the basal third of the upper mandible.

  9. List of bird genera - Wikipedia

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    Passerines, the "song birds". This is the largest order of birds and contains more than half of all birds. Family Acanthisittidae. Genus Acanthisitta - rifleman; Genus Xenicus - New Zealand wrens; Family Acanthizidae - scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygones Genus Acanthiza – thornbill; Genus Acanthornis – scrubtit; Genus Aethomyias ...

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