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PELICANS
These birds, from
the same order as
gannets and tropic
birds, scoop up fish in
their pouched beaks.
With long legs adapted to wading
in shallow water, herons use their
long beaks to capture fish and frogs.
HERONS
Thrushes belong to the vast order
of perching songbirds that contains
THRUSHES
more than half of all bird species.
Gulls and terns are seabirds, but
other members of their order
GULLS ROADRUNNERS
feed by the water’s edge.
family, roadrunners live
The tallest flying birds in the
mainly on the ground,
world, long-legged cranes
CRANES Members of the cuckoo
running fast to flush out
belong to an order that also
prey and avoid predators.
includes coots and moorhens.
Nighttime hunters, owls
have excellent hearing
OWLS
ALBATROSSES BIRDS OF PREY and vision to detect and
Albatrosses migrate
swoop on prey.
vast distances over the
oceans, returning each
Eagles and other birds of prey are
breeding sites on land.
NIGHTJARS
year to the same
formidable hunters with excellent
These long-winged
birds and their relatives
eyesight, sharp talons to grab prey,
roost in trees or on
the ground during the
insects between dusk
and dawn.
Tall waders with long legs
FLAMINGOS PARROTS and hooked, tearing beaks. Also called loons, streamlined day, then hunt for
and necks, most flamingos
live in flocks in tropical
lakes, where they bend
DIVERS
their necks to filter animals
These forest birds are
and plants from the water
divers make excellent underwater
with their upturned beaks.
strong climbers and
fliers that feed on fruit
to walk on land.
and nuts.
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