Birds are warm-blooded vertebrates that have feathers, beaks, and lay eggs. They use their feathers for protection, breathing, and movement. Birds such as song thrushes and owls have unique characteristics - song thrushes build nests and eat worms while listening for prey underground, and owls hunt at night using sharp claws and silent flight to catch mice and rats.

1. The birds

2. What do we know about birds?

3. Birds are vertebrate animals. They have a skeleton inside their bodies. They are warm-blooded animals. Their body temperature is constant.

4. Protection Birds have feathers to protect their bodies. They have three kinds of feathers: body feathers, down feathers, flight feathers.

5. Movement

6. Breathing Birds breathe through lungs.

7. Feeding Birds feed on plants, other animals or both plants and other animals.

8. Special features They have beaks, but do not have teeth.

9. Reproduction Female birds lay eggs.

10. The Song Thrush

11. There are many kind of thrusts, but the song thrust is the best known. The song thrush has a brown back and a spotted breast.

12. The song thrush has a sweet voice. In spring you can hear its song early in the morning and late in the afternoon.

13. Feeding Song thrush eats: worms,snails,insects. The song thrush has sharp hearing. It listens for the movement of a worm under the groung and then swoops and picks it up quickly in its beak.

14. If the weather is mild, the song thrush begins to build its nest in February of early March. It builds the nest in the fork of a tree. The nest made up of roots, moss and grass.

15. The eggs are greenish-blue with brown spots.

16. The owl

17. There are many different kinds of owl. barn owl, towny owl, little owl

18. Barn owl

19. Tawny owl

20. Little owl

21. The owl has a flat face with large round eyes. It can see very well in the dark.

22. The owl’s body is covered with feathers to protect it from the cold night air.

23. The owl is a bird of pray, so it has sharp claws on its feet.

24. Owls are nocturnal animals. They sleep during the day and hunt at night.

25. The owl does not built a nest like other birds.

26. The owl lays and hatches its eggs in a different ways from other birds. The owl lays on egg at a time and sits on it for a few days before laying the next. So the eggs do not hatch out on the same day. The owls ara called owlets.

27. They also eat rabbits, worms, incects and birds. Owls are very useful birds because they kill a lot of mice and rats.

28. Owl hunt very quietly. Their feathers are so soft that they make no sound when flying.