Essays on Birds

Is it a bird, is it a plane? Too small, probably just a bird. If you were born and grew up in Australia, you must have seen this living national treasure, either on newspaper or TV. The Helmeted Honeyeater, or Lichenostomus melanops cassidix for the…

Introduction Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus is a large bird belonging to the family Phoenicopteridae (Grimmette et.al. 1998). Although the birds are large, excessively long-legged marsh birds with very long slender necks and peculiar thick lamellate bills sharply down curved or “broken” in the middle. Their…

Introduction There are many unique birds, they can be fast or slow, small or big, can fly or stay on the ground! I am going to be listing a type of bird that interests me immensely, the penguin! There are many types of these strange…

The Characteristics of the Adélie Penguin The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adéliae) is a medium sized penguin weighing between 3 – 6kg and stand at 70cm tall. It is one of the most widespread penguins in the Antarctic; they are 1 of only 2 true Antarctic…

Physiological Features Emperor Penguins have to survive in some of the harshest weather conditions in the world (as low as -40°Cand 200 km/h winds). They have a set of features that help them adapt to this. These penguins have large reserves of sub-dermal body fat…

Birds are a good organism to analyze when looking at the world’s crisis of biodiversity because birds can virtually be found anywhere around the world and live in almost every environment. Also, birds have been studied for a long time and they are very well…

A ratite is any of a different gathering of huge, nonflying winged creatures of Gondwanan cause, a large portion of them now spread out. Not at all like different flightless fowls, have the ratites had no bottom on their sternum – henceforth their name which…

The scientific name Haliaeetus leucocephalus. The status is in 1995 The United States Fish and Wildlife Service officially down listed the bald eagle from “Endangered” to “Threatened” in the lower 48 states including West Virginia. The first documented bald eagle nest in West Virginia was…

Of the vertebrates, birds of the class Aves are the most noticeable, the most melodious and the most beautiful. Birds with more than nine thousand species far put number other vertebrate groups except fishes” . (Hickman P.C Jr , et.al pg 582). Birds are the…

Found among the islands of Luzon, Leyte, Samar and Mindanao, the Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi lives as one of the largest and most powerful among forest raptors in the world. The bird of prey is equipped with a massive narrow-arched bill and large black claws,…

Global Warming is making our temperatures and ocean levels to rise at a rapid rate (Carey 3321). This behavior has become a threat to our biodiversity. Biodiversity is defined as the basis of all life on planet earth. The term biodiversity has become a popular…

Fossil Discovery Impacts Theory on Evolution of Birds and Flight In the past few decades, the hypothesis that birds evolved from dinosaurs has been widely accepted by many scientists because of fossil evidence. Now scientists are looking for ways to prove the origin of flight…

The Anatomy of an Owl Owls are birds of prey, also known as predators. They hunt small mammals such as mice, squirrels, even young foxes; they also hunt insects, frogs, fish and even other birds in order to survive. Most owls are nocturnal, meaning that…