The document discusses the class Aves (birds). It describes key characteristics of birds such as feathers, beaks without teeth, laying hard-shelled eggs, and having a lightweight skeleton. It then focuses on raptors, specifically bald eagles. Bald eagles have a wingspan of 5-6.5 feet and prey primarily on fish. They are found near water and build large nests. The document provides information on bald eagle characteristics, behaviors, habitats, and conservation status.

1. Class Aves
By: Cassie Lynn Wheeler

2. Characteristics of the class
Aves (Birds)
Birds are a group of endothermic
vertebrates, characterized by feathers,
a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-
shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a
four-chambered heart, and a lightweight
but strong skeleton.

6. Detailed Characteristics of Class Aves (Birds)
That Suits Them Well For Their Environments
 Feathers-Keep them warm, help them glide through the air.
 Beaks-To aid in food consumption(cracking open a seed or to tear flesh)
they can also use it to help make their nest.
 Eggs with shells- Helps protect the fetus from the out side
environments.
 Wings- Enables them to fly/ fee from predators .
 Talons-Aids in catching prey, roosting on branches, they are also used to
help make their nest .

8. Orders in the Class Aves
 Struthioniformes- Cassowaries, Emus,
Kiwis, Ostriches and Rheas.
 Tinamiformes- Tinamous .
 Craciformes- Chachalacas, Currasows,
Guans, Malleefowl, and Scrubfowls.
 Galliformes- Goruse, Guineafowl,
Quails, New World Quails, Pheasant
and Turkeys.
 Anseriformes- Ducks, Geese,
Screamers, Swans and Whistling-
Ducks.
 Turniciformes- Buttonuails
 Piciformes- Barbets, Honeyguides,
Piculets, Woodpeckers and Wrynecks
 Galbuliformes- Jacamers and
Puffbirds
 Upupiformes- Hoopoes
 Trogoniformes- Trogons
 Coraciiformes- Bee-eaters,
Kingfishers, Motmots, Rollers and
Todies
 Coliiformes- Colies or Mousedbirds
 Cuculiformes- Anis, Coucals,
Cuckoos, Hoatzin, and Roadrunners
 Psittaciformes- Mawcaws and
Parrots
 Apodiformes- Swifts
 Trochiliformes- Hermits and
Hummingbirds
 Musophagiformes- Plantain eaters
and Touracos
 Strigiformes- Nightjars, Oilbirds,
Owls, Owlet-nightjars and Potoos
 Columbiformes- Pigeons

9.  Gruiformes- Bustards, Coots, Cranes,
Gallinules, Kagus, limpkins, Mesites,
Monias, Rails, Roatelos, Seriemas,
Sunbitterns, sungrebes and
Trumpeters
 Ciconiiformes- Albertrosses, Anhingas,
Auks, Avocets, Bitterns, Boobies,
Carcacas, Cormorants, Crab-plovers,
Curlews, Darters, Divers, Eagles,
Egrets, Falcons, Flamingos,
Frigatebirds, Gannets, Grebes, Gulls,
Hammerkops, Hawks, Herons, Ibises,
Jacanas, Kites, Lapwings, Loons,
Oystercatchers, Paintedcoles,
Pelecans, Penguins, Petrels,
Phalaropes, Plains, -wanderers,
Plovers, Pratincoles, Puffns,
Sandprouse, Sandpipers,
Secratarybirds, Seedsnipes, Shags,
Shearwater, Sheathbills, Shoells,
Skuas, Snipe, Spoonbills, Stils, Stroks,
Thorpicbirds and Vultures.
 Passeriformes- Accent, Antbirds,
Asities, Babblers, Birds of Paradise,
Bowerbirds, Bristlebirds, Broadbills,
Bulbuls, Buntings, Bushtits, Carbinals,
Catinals, Chaffinches, Chats, Cickadees,
Chowchillas, Cotingas, Crossbill, Crows,
Dippers, Drongas, Emuwerens, Fairy-
Bluebirds, Goldfinches, Gnatcatchers,
Gnateaters, Grass-warblers,
Grasswrens, Greenbuls, Greenlets,
Honeycreepers, Honeyeaters,
Hypocilius, Jays, Kinglats, Larks,
Laughingthrushers, Leafbirds, Leaf-
warblers, Logrunners, Lyrebirds,
Magpies, Manakins, Martins,
Mockingbirds, Mynas, Northern
Creepers, Nuthatches, Ovenbirds,
Plamchats, Pardalotes, Peppershrikes,
Pipits, Pittas,

10.  --- Pittas, Robins, Scrub-bids,
Scrubwrens, Shrikes, Shrike-
vireos, Silk-flycatchers,
Sparrowers, Spiderhunters,
Starlings, Swallows, Sugarbirds,
Sunbirds, Tapaculos, Thornbills,
Tits, Tityras, Treecreepers,
Thrushes, Tyarant Wattlebirds,
Wag-tails, Wallscreepers,
Waawing, Weavers, White-eyes,
Whydahs, Woodcreepers,
Woodwarblers, Wrens, Wrentits,
and Vireos.

12.  The Order I Chose: Ciconiiformes
 The Family: Accipitridae (Eagles)
 The Genus: Haliaeetus (Bald Eagles)

14. Raptor Characteristics
 Raptor characteristics are:
They are strong birds
Are very large is size
have very sharp beaks
have very sharp talons
a wide wing span
have little claws on the bottom of the foot
anti glare vision
they only lay 1-3 eggs per year

15. Characteristics of the Accipitridae
Family
 The Accipitridae family have the bold predatory look.
 This family includes Eagles, Hawks, Falcons, Kites, Vultures, etc.
 Their diet includes small mammals (mice, rabbits, moles, etc.), fish,
and sometimes dead animals.
 They all have sharp talons
 Sharp Beak
 Have excellent vision
 The female is usually larger than the males.
 They are found mostly in terrestrial habitats, but some raptors like to
stay near a water source to catch fish and to drink.

16. Haliaeetus leucocephalus
(Bald Eagle)

17. Characteristics of Haliaeetus leucocephalus
 Wing span : 70 - 90''(178-229 cm)
 Life span can last to 20 years old.
 Speed (diving) : 75-99 mph
 Conservation status : least concern (population increasing)
 Higher classification: Accipitridae
 They can lay 1-3 eggs each year.
 The genus of a bald eagle is the sea Haliaeetus.

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19. More facts about Bald Eagles
 Eagles primarily eat fish, carrion, smaller
birds and rodents. Eagles are also known
to prey on large birds and large fish. They
often eat dead deer.

21. Do they have predators?
 Because of their size, adult Bald Eagles have very few
predators. Some animals which attack eggs or nestlings
include squirrels, Raccoons, Ravens, and Great Horned Owls.
Crows, which don't like any raptors, will harass (bother)
eagles, but rarely do any harm.

23. The Bald Eagles
reproduction rate, as we
speak is increasing .
In this picture they are
locking there feet together
and then they go around and
around. If they stay on then
they receive the right to
mate with the females. But if
one lets go then they lose
their right to mate.

24. The size of there eggs can get to 3 in long -
2 in wide.

25. • What is species?
how is species and other classification
different.
 A group of living organisms consisting of similar
individuals capable of exchanging genes or
interbreeding.The species is the principal
natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus.
 It is different from other classifications
because it tells what kind of animal it is. For
example, in the Haliaeetus genus of eagles
there are multiple species including the Bald
and Golden Eagles. The species tell which type
of Eagle i

27. Web siting's
 http://animals.pppst.com/birds.html
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eagle
 www. Color full birds google images.com
 http://www.defenders.org/bald-eagle/basic-facts
 https://www.google.com/search?q=bald+eagle+body+diagram&biw=1138&bi
h=518&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihvt6WkPvKAhVFdT4KHTilBo4Q_A
UIBSgA&dpr=1.2#q=bald+eagle+
 http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Aves.aspx