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30 Cards in this Set
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Identify a bird by |
bill, eyes, bare parts, legs, feathers: structures and adaptations |
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Flight Feathers |
large wing and tailfeathers |
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contour feathers |
visible featherson the rest of a grown bird |
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downy feathers |
onbaby birds, or next toskin on adults [but notwoodpeckers] |
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Plumes |
Feather in a cap |
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Head - Back - Tail - Belly |
Anterior, Dorsal, Posterior, Ventral |
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Most Posterior Feathers to Least |
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary |
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Tail Feathers |
Rectrices |
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Grouping of Tertiary feathers |
Bustle |
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Wing Coverts |
Area on top of wings (Scapular, lesser, median, greater) |
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Alula |
Thumb |
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Submoustachial Stripe |
Malar |
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Deciduious crest |
Mating season development |
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Rictal Bristles |
Mustache on owls |
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Tibia is above? |
Tarsus |
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Zygodactyl |
2 forward 2 back |
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Porro prism |
Not straight through |
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Clade |
Nested Hierarchy |
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Species |
Reproductively compatible |
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Double subspecies |
Implies there's a double last name |
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Eruption |
Leave an area |
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Irruption |
Come to an area |
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Dentary |
Jaw |
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Coronoid process slots in to |
Jugal |
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Sagittal crest |
jaw tendons connect to |
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Hearing structure |
Auditory bulla |
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Borders Foramen magnum |
Occipital condyle |
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Three Canadian toads |
Boreal, Canadian, Great plains |
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Three canadian snakes |
wandering, plains, hog nosed |
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Heterocaudal Peduncle |
Homocaudal Operculum |
