Extinct Species: Dodo Bird

The Cardinal, also known as the redbird and the Virginia nightingale, is about eight inches long, a little smaller than a robin. They have perching feet to help support them when they are sitting in the trees. Their throat and area around the base of the bill is black and they have a seed eating beak. Cardinals have an elliptical wing because they need to have the capability for quick take-offs and and

These birds have astonished scientists with an ability to apply complex social reasoning, incredible feats of memory, and an outstanding aptitude for crafting and using tools.

its eggs in other bird's nest. If it not were for the other species ignorance,

Darwin has listed different names for each bird, they are all variations of Finches, apparently descended from a common ancestor. However, each bird has a different length beak and many are differently shaped to allow them to more efficiently eat the available fodder. Coincidentally, Mr. Darwin failed to catalog specifically where each bird came from and had to ask the ship’s captain to supply this information along with his collection to Mr. Gould for identification and cataloging. An interesting part of the conversation between Mr. Darwin and the ship’s captain is the captain’s argument for the fixity of species, that each one was created by God exactly the way it was, and placed on each island, and that it is heresy to say that they came to be there any other way.

Hummingbirds include the smallest birds in the world, but they belong to one of the largest group of birds, the Trochilidae family. These enchanting birds are found in deserts, mountains, and plains, but most live in tropical rainforests. Their name refers to the humming sound made by their tiny, beating wings; each species creates a different humming sound, depending on the speed of its wing beats. In the Caribbean, people call the hummingbird el zunzun. These energetic dynamos have been around for ages; hummingbird fossils found in Germany are said to be more than 30 million years old.

The Narrow-Striped Mongoose is almost exactly the same as its cousin, the Grandidier’s Mongoose. Although unlike its cousin, the fossa (whom the Narrow-Striped is related to) preys on the Narrow-Striped Mongoose. The Narrow-Striped gets its main source of food from preying on bird eggs. As stated earlier, the Narrow-Striped Mongoose is related to the fossa and Grandidier’s Mongoose (The fossa through the original ancestor of the Eupleridae family, and the Grandidier’s through the Ring-Tailed

The group discovered is more closely related to anteaters than to the other sloths (Document B). Though all of the groups (populations A-D and the anteaters), trace back to one common point, the newly discovered population of sloths is closer to anteaters than it is to the other three populations of sloths. This difference even is evident on the genetic level. The team geologist recorded that the new population shares “little to no common genes with other populations” of sloths in the region (Document E). Therefore, the new group is not closely related to the preexisting

The whooping crane was endangered in 1967. Although believed to be rare, the crane has suffered major population damage to habitat destruction and

The Fat-tailed Dunnart’s kingdom is Animalia, Phylum is Chordata, class is Mammalia, order is Dasyuromorphia, and family is Dasyuridae, Genus Sminthopsis.

F. Divina, "Game Birds and Fowl." In Foods of the Americas, 224. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2004.

Its name means swift or speedy thief they actually have feathers you might think of it as a giant chicken, but it's only about knee high to an adult human it's only three feet tall and six feet long. some scientist believe that birds are dinosaurs they both have wishbones and relative bones and have hollow bones, and they're both covered in feathers, the dinosaurs couldn't fly because they weighed too much. There's no evidence that they lived in packs they supposedly lived solitary, they to weapons to kill their prey as they used their single curved hind claws. But they also had their very sharp teeth and hands and its favorite lunch is the protoceratops, and they might have been warm-blooded like our mammals

Probosciger aterrimus, better known as the “palm cockatoo”, is the largest bird species of the parakeet (Psittaciformes) family (Taylor 2000). This highly threatened cockatoo species can be found dwelling in many tropical and woodland regions, including those of lowland New Guinea and the savanna habitat of Cape York Peninsula, Australia (Murphy et al. 2003), and can be identified by its long, plumaged body, curled erectile crest, and naked cheek patches. Of particular interest, and perhaps the most distinctive of this cockatoo’s traits, is the long, strong hooked beak. As with many bird species, the palm cockatoo’s bill has adapted to its specific dietary preferences and feeding strategies; in particular, the shock absorbing ability of the large, powerful bill allows the granivore-frugivore (grain or seed-eating – fruit-eating, respectively) (Koutsos et al. 2001) parakeet to scavenge for hard nuts that are otherwise inaccessible to other parakeet species. Further supporting the granivorous diet-accommodating beak morphology of the palm cockatoo is a study conducted by Munshi-South and Wilkinson (2006) that conclusively correlated the evolution of longer lifespans in parrots with the adoption of seed-based diets. If parrot species do in fact achieve longer lifespans by adopting granivorous diets, natural selection’s favoring of traits maximizing the adoption of a granivorous diet in the palm cockatoo should be relatively equally distributed amongst all members of the

The pigeon stems from the Rock Pigeon, which is from the bird family Columbidae. The usage of carrier pigeons as ways of delivering a message dates back to centuries ago. During WWll, pigeons were dependent on to deliver discreet messages from and to an area. More than 250,000 carrier pigeons were used in World War II (WWII Carrier Pigeon Finally Delivers Secret Message). For usage, a pigeon would be equipped with a small capsule fastened to one leg (or to its back if it was larger) and often released from an aircraft. These pigeons were trained to navigate where to go and how to come back. According to America in WWII, "Over short distances, these birds could approach 60 miles per hour, though 35 to 40 miles was a more typical average cruising speed. Flying is strenuous, and on a long flight, a bird could lose 2 or 3 ounces—about a fifth of its 13 to 15 ounces of body weight. For this reason, younger birds, one to four years old, were used (Razes)." Pigeons were very beneficiary to WWll and were helpful in carrying messages across the country when it seemed impossible to carry by word of mouth or very far traveling distance. Along with the advantages came the disadvantages. The owners faced difficulties such as importing, hiding, feeding, and exercising them. Also, there was a limitation to distance and direction which could be flown (Rigden

The first pigeons lived among precipices and rough edges in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. These pigeons are known as Rock Doves, despite everything they exist today. All Rock Doves are the same blue-bar shading transforms.

There have been five well known extinctions on this earth. The one most well known is the mass extinction that ended the dinosaurs. Mass extinction is often described as the elimination of a large number of species in a short period of time. Despite what many think, the elimination of species is almost commonplace at this point. The Earth is currently in the middle of a sixth mass extinction, and it’s been caused by the human race.