Birds Test 2

• The wing structure of bats and birds differs.
• Birds have feathers projecting back from lightweight, fused arm and hand bones.
• Bats have flexible, relatively short wings with membranes stretched between elongated fingers.

• Sparrow flies at low heights.
• Sparrow flies at 46 km/h

The Indian peacock, Pavo cristatus, the National Bird of India, is a colourful, swan-sized bird, with a fan-shaped crest of feathers, a white patch under the eye and a long, slender neck.

• These are the chicken-like birds, that can only fly short distances at a time and can run through the brush quite well.
• Woodcock, turkeys, grouse and partridge are all gallinaceous birds.

Eagle: It is a large flying bird, weigh up to 15 kg. spanning up to 10 ft 6 in, Andean condors have the longest wingspan of any raptor in the world.

They love to glide in the wind and can each a maximum height of 15000 feet.

Pigeons can fly up to 700 miles in a single day, but are capable of flying far further if their journeys are broken up.

• Eagle is a bird that can fly to great heights.
• Eagles, vultures and kites fly at great heights and have very sharp eyes to their prey on the ground.

• Pigeons can fly over long distances.
• That is why they are used to carry letters from one place to another in olden days.

• Cranes live on all continents except Antarctica and South America.
• Cranes construct platform nests in shallow water, and typically lay two eggs at a time.

Penguin is a flightless bird which cannot fly at all.

It move on earth with its legs.