1. Bird Adaptations

2. Beaks Probing – hummingbird Drilling – woodpecker
Cracking – macaw, finch
Spearing – great blue heron
Tearing – hawk
Filtering - duck

3. Probing beak
The hummingbird’s beak allow it to sip nectar from flowers. Some birds have probing beaks that allow them to find food in sand or mud.

4. Drilling beak
Also referred to as a chisel-type beak, a woodpecker can locate and extract insects below the surface of a tree’s bark.

5. Cracking beak
Many birds that eat seeds must be able to crack open the hull that surrounds the seed. Birds such as finches and sparrows do this.

6. Spearing Beak
These birds have a beak with serrated edges and a hooked tip that helps them catch fish or minnows. The heron is such a bird.

7. Tearing Beak
Birds of prey such as the eagle, hawk, falcon, and owl use their beak to tear their food into small pieces they can swallow.

8. Filtering Beak
The bill of a duck is fringed to allow mud and water to escape while straining plants, seeds, and small animals for it to eat.

9. #1 #2 #3 Beaks 1st Trial 2nd Trail 3rd Trial 4th Trial 5th Trial
Average #1 #2 #3

10. Activities
- Animal Adaptations: Focus on Bird Beaks
- Eaks! Beaks!
- Design a Bird