Adaptations

Bird Beaks - Did you ever wonder why there are so many types of bird beaks or bills? The most important function of a bird bill is feeding, and it is shaped according to what a bird eats.

Bird Feet - Birds have many different shapes and sizes to their feet. Like the shape of the bill, the anatomy of birds' feet tells us much about the ecology of different species of birds.

Feathers - Feathers are one of the most prominent features of a bird's anatomy, and they are unique to birds.

Feather Colors - Birds are among the most colorful of all vertebrates. Only coral reef fish of tropical oceans show as wide a range of colors and patterns.

 

 

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