Avian Crossword
Across
- 3. Hookbill
- 5. Bird voice box
- 6. Upper portion of the feather shaft to which barbs attach
- 12. Method of providing nutritional support
- 13. Intelligent, loud small parrot
- 15. Nectar-eater
- 16. Number of hours it takes to form an egg
- 17. Outpouching of esophagus
- 22. Type of muscle found in a bird's eye
- 24. Sensory or decorative feather
- 26. Area of attachment for pectoral muscles
Down
- 1. Terminal end of digestive, urinary & reproductive tracts
- 2. Bird class
- 4. Nervous, social cage ornament
- 7. Wing feather
- 8. More prominent jugular vein
- 9. Restraint technique or aid
- 10. Wing vein
- 11. Insulation barbs
- 14. Catheter placed in medullary cavity of bone
- 18. Stomach with digestive enzymes
- 19. Area of attachment for tail feathers
- 20. Immature, blue-colored feather
- 21. Type of sac found in the respiratory system
- 23. Wishbone
- 25. Non-vestigial side of female oviduct in birds