Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Birds
This site from Enchanted Learning can answer your questions about birds. What type of scientist studies birds? What is the fastest running bird? Which bird lays the largest birds' eggs? Come and find out the answer to these questions and...
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Next: Birds
Multiple activities help students gain a better understanding of birds and their role in the food web. Click on the links provides for further exploration.
Earth Life
Earth Life Web: Anatomy of Birds
Beginning with the bird skeleton, this website from Earth-Life Web describes bird anatomy and morphology. Pictures and diagrams are included for each section. Feet, wings, eggs, and feathers are just some of the topics discussed.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Birds
This resource provides detailed information about birds, as well as several pictures.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Bird Feather Color
Yes, birds can see color and this site delves into pigmentation, color abnormalities, and structural colors of birds' feathers.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Feather Structure
This site provides a detailed explanation of the structure of bird feathers. Topics include feather topography, types of feathers, and feathers and flight.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Molting
Why do birds molt? How many times a year do they molt? When do birds molt? These questions and more are answered on this comprehensive site.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: A Calliope Hummingbird Molts Its Gorget Feathers
Striking photos are presented in this colorful site that show the molting stages of the Calliope Hummingbird.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Bird Feather Plumage Variations
Plumage variations can be based on a number of factors. This brief but informative examines single plumage patterns, seasonal variations, and sexual dimorphism.
DLTK
Kidzone: All About Birds
This is comprehensive site covers the characteristics of birds and looks at various birds through pictures and words. Several puzzles are included and the degree of difficultly can be changed.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Birds in Flight, What a Sight!
This lesson has been designed to show students the unique structure that birds possess--feathers--and how they maneuver them in flight.