more about birds

• Birds fly. They have two wings.• The body of the bird is covered with feathers.

WINGS

COLOURFUL FEATHERS

FEATHERS…..

• Feathers of a peacock

Colourful feathers of a macaw…

So ……Birds are colourful!!.

Birds have no mouth. They have beak.

They have different kinds of beak for different purposes:

1. To tear and eat meat.

For Example :Koel

• This bird does not make its own nest

• It lays its eggs in a crow’s nest.

• The crow hatches them along with its own eggs.

FOOD..•Birds eat different kinds of food.

Some birds eat fruits.

E.g. parrot

Some birds eat insects and worms.

E.g. wood pecker

Some birds eat dead animals.

E.g. vulture

Birds FoodBirds mostly use their keen eyesight to find food.

worms

small mammals

fishfruit

grain, or nectar

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They use their beak and their claws to get bugs

♦Birds have two feet

♦They have different kinds of feet for different purposes:

1.Webbed feet

to swim in water

FEET….

EGGS…

• Birds lay eggs.• The egg of an ostrich is the largest

in the world.

FLIGHTLESS BIRDS…..

• Some birds cannot fly .For Eg:• OSTRICH

•CASSOWARY

HUMMING BIRD

Fun Fact!!!

THE HUMMING BIRD IS THE ONLY BIRD WHICH CAN FLY BOTH, BACKWARDS AND FORWARD!!!