Birds

Animal groups_Birds

• The birds have got feathers.

• All the birds have got two legs and two wings.

• Birds have a beak.

• They lay eggs. The young hacht from the egg.

• They are warm-blooded.

• Birds breathe faster than mammals and their body are warmer.

• Birds give us meat and eggs (chicken, turkey...)

• Some of them are good pets (parrot, canary...)

• The bird of prey can eat some mammals. Birds also eat little reptiles, insects ,other birds and fishes.

• They have got hollow bones filled with air. It help them to fly.

• There are bird that migrate. They fly to the south to escape the cold winters.