AVES BY ALEXIS YOUNG
OCTOBER 21, 2009
NEWSLETTER
Birds Eye View AVES more commonly
known as flying birds of
Some birds in the Aves classification include the oriel, blue jay, robin,
and cardinal (these are not featured in the picture). non-prey, can be beautiful
Birds !om the Saint Catherine’s Creek National Wildlife Refuge creatures. Some common
www.fws.gov/saintcatherinecreek/birdwatch.html characteristics are they
have wings with feathers
for aerodynamics, beaks
with no teeth, they lay eggs
with hard shells, they have
a high metabolic heart rate
allowing them to eat a lot
without getting heavy.
They also have a strong yet
lightweight skeleton, and a
four-chamber heart with a
closed circulatory system.
They are also warm
blooded which means they
stay the same temperature
all the time. Aves are
herbivores but they can
also be opportunistic.
Take the robin for
example. It eats worms
As you can see in the picture stay in the woods for shelter from the
only because seeds are hard
above Aves have nostrils to breath wind and snow; they also have a
with. However what you might not be better chance of finding food there. to find so it has developed
able to see is that they have specially Aves can be found all over the world the habit of eating worms
adapted respiratory and digestive mostly due to the migrations. when nothing else is
systems for flight. These allow them As you can see birds are very available.
to be able to breath correctly and intelligent and know when it is time Aves have also helped
digest fully while in flight. to move because they move annually. man to fly, being that they
I assume this especially comes in There respond to stimuli is high
fly we looked at the way
handy when the birds migrate each because of there ability to sense the
year to find warmer weather when the changes in the environment around they preformed in the air
winter season starts in the north. Not them. so that we could use
all Aves migrate though. Some simply similar designs.
There are many birds
HOW TO FEED A MOCKING BIRD that are either going
Aves eat a variety of seeds Aves are also very unique extinct or have but one
and in some cases where food because they use a system that is on the endangered
is scares they will eat bugs or called cooperative breeding.
list is the blue jay. This is
worms. This would make the This means they only
because it has been forced
birds prey for some larger reproduce with one bird and
animals but they could also be stay faithful to that bird for out of its homes by
considered predators to the the rest of there life. aggressive birds like the
organisms that they eat. cardinal.
picture from flickr user: playingwithbrushes

OCTOBER 21, 2009
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