Birding Guide for Birds’ Feet

FOOD Form and Function are the focus for Feet and for Bills of birds.

Honest.             

Chambers’s Encyclopedia (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1875)

The previous lesson gave attention to the FEET of Perching Birds.

In this next lesson we look at  the Form and Function of  Feet of other Birds. We will compare talons, webbed feet, tiny feet and more.

The lesson that follows that will focus on Feeding  Form and Function and how the bills of birds are so well suited to the food they eat.

Or is it the other way around. Do they choose their food because that is what their bills can get to the best?

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Donna Bessken

What is the first thing you think when you see a new or rare bird in your yard? Have I ever seen it before? What color is it?

NO. You think Wow. What kind of bird is that!

You watch the darling bird eat at your feeder and when it flies away you call your birdwatching friend. You tell her all about what just happened and her first question stops you short.

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