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Birds (Class Aves)
• extant (8900+ species, 28 orders, and 190 families)
• extinct (100,000 species)
• abundant since late Cretaceous
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Characteristics
• Endothermy
• integument:feathers (insulation & flight)thin, scaly, dry, & with few glands
•muscular system: large pectoral muscles
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skeleton
1. weight, pneumatic bones2. beak, no jaws, & one occipital condyle3. wings & bipedal hindlimbs4. carinate sternum5. synsacrum- fused sacral/lumbar vertebrae &
ilium/ishium6. clavicles fused into the furcula (wishbone)7. uncinate process joins the ribs8. secondary palate9. reduced and fused skull
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digestive system• rapid processing; high energy food
• esophageal crop for storage
• gizzard
• beak & tongue specializations
• cloaca
• pellets
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excretory system
• metanephric kidney
• uric acid; no urinary bladder
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respiratory & circulatory systems
1. air sacs attach to pneumatic bones; 9X the air volume of lungs
2. aid in heat dissipation
3. no diaphragm
4. syrinx- voice box
5. four chambered heart
6. nucleated red blood cells
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reproduction• oviparous
• internal fertilization
• pair bonding & courtship
• songs & territoriality
• parenting behavior
• precocial -vs- altricial
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bird origins
• Jurassic
• Archeopteryx
• modern birds appear in Cretaceous
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Archeopteryx
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beaks
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feet
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feather evolution• from epidermal scales; protein & beta keratin
• benefits/use
• insulation
• prey capture
• courtship display
• crypsis
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feather types1. remiges- wing2. retrices- tail3. structure: calamus, rachis, barbs,
and vein4. semiplumes (insulative; no barbs)5. down (insulation)6. powder down (water-proofing)7. bristles (sensory)8. filoplumes
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feathers
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Anseriformes
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Charadriiformes
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Ciconiformes
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Falconiformes
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Strigiformes
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Piciformes
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Passeriformes