Bird Anatomy

1. used for grooming, feeding, picking up objects, fighting, foraging, courtship and feeding young babies
6. long winding tube in which food is digested and absorbed into the blood
7. very sharp vision (some birds can see ultraviolet light!)
8. weighs up to two times more than a mammal of equal size a four-chambered organ that beats 200 times per minute for birds
10. nine in total keep oxygen rich air moving in one direction so that it can get the most oxygen per breath
13. mall organ which produces digestive enzymes
15. birds use this to digest food six times faster than a rabbit.
16. latin for sewer, the end of the digestive tract

2. rid the body of metabolic wastes by producing uric acid
3. organ used for digesting food storing and filtering the blood and producing proteins
4. after eating, undigested food moves down this tube
5. lower stomach; crushes food with pebbles the bird has swallowed
9. Some are used for flight, some for insulation and some for courtship and mating
11. undigested food sits in this organ and parent birds feed their babies with this "milk"
12. for smelling a little and breathing a lot! - though, vultures can smell and have found leaks in gas pipes which smelled like rotten carrion, other birds can identify their own nests with smell
13. muscles used for flight; largest, most powerful muscles in the bird
14. Wide and flat area provides large surface area for the large pectoral muscles to attach to