Vocabulary

Please define the following terms as a group. Remember if you add/change content, make sure you make reference to your sources.

[|Forehead] The part of the face above the eyebrows. (Warren)
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Crown The crown is the part of the head that covers their brain.(konrad) TEXTBOOK

[|Nape] The back of the neck. (Warren)

[|Ear-coverts] The small feathers that cover the area of the ear, sometimes distinctively coloured. (Warren)

[|Mantle] A covering layer of tissue. (Warren)

[|Scapulars] One of the feathers covering the shoulder of a bird. (Warren)

Greater coverts

Back the [|back]is the part that contanes the spine (Jacob) area of vertebrate's body: the area of a vertebrate animal's body on each side of the backbone Encarta World English Dictionary (Jacob)

Tertial Feathers feathers that help the bird fly. (Jacob) **Flight feathers** are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired feathers on the wings or tail of bird ; those on the wings are called **remiges** (singular remex) while those on the tail are called **rectrices** (singular rectrix).

[|Secondary Feathers]- The secondary flight feathers run along the "arm" of the wing and sustain the bird in the air, giving it lift. The number of secondary feathers varies a great deal among the species. (Warren)

Rump The rump is the butt (Jacob) bottom: the buttocks from bing.com

Uppertail-coverts- its the part right before the begging of the tail (ty)

Undertail-coverts

[|Vent] The excretory opening of the digestive tract in animals such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. (Warren)

Belly the part of an animal that digests the food (Jacob) area of vertebrate's body: the area of a vertebrate animal's body on each side of the backbone Encarta World English Dictionary (Jacob)

Thigh the part of an animal that is moves the legs (Jacob) top part of leg: the top of the leg between the knee and the hip bing.com (Jacob)

Primary Feathers

Flank the part of an annimal that is near the thighs (Jacob) side of lower torso: each side of the body of a person or an animal between the last rib and the hip bing.com (Jacob)

Greater primary coverts

Alula a muscle neer the breast that helps move the wing (Jacob) is a small projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern (and some ancient) birds (info from wikipedia.com) (Jacob)

Breast-the breast has the muscles that propel the wings (Danny Mannix) TEXTBOOK

Median coverts

Lesser coverts

Throat- The throat is were food goes down to the crop to store.Ty textbook pg413

Chin the part of the bird that sticks ought and chues the food (Jacob) part of face: the part of the face below the lips, including the usually protruding front portion of the lower jaw (bing.com) (Jacob) Lore