Ornithology

What is the purpose of lobed feet?

• They allow crocodiles to walk across marshes by increasing surface area, but provide less foot maneuverability than webbing.

• They allow birds to fly across marshes by decreasing surface area, but provide less foot maneuverability than webbing.

• They allow birds to walk across deserts by decreasing surface area, but provide more toe maneuverability than webbing.

• They allow birds to walk across marshes by increasing surface area, but provides more toe maneuverability than webbing. Coots and Grebes have lobed feet.

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The Black-Bellied Whistling Duck is identified as...

• 
• Anseriformes, Anatidae

• Dendrocygna autumnalis

• All of the above

The wishbone

• furcula

• tibiotarsus

• ischium

• carpometacarpus

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The purpose of bones in the bird skeletal system is

• respiration

• support

• muscle attachment

• all of these

Head, neck, trunk and tail are part if the bird's _____ skeleton.

• axial

• appendicular

The "knee" of the bird is called the

• intratarsal joint

• pygostyle

• synsacrum

• tibiotarsus

Birds have a _____- chambered heart.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Birds do not have a larynx.

• True

• False

What is the Common Name for Chen caerulescens?

• Anseriformes, Anatidae

• 
• Snow Goose

• Canada Goose

Zoologists have long seen the evolutionary connection between birds and what other group of animals? 

• Fish

• Amphibians

• Humans

• Reptiles 

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