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Where would you find these birds?
WHAT ARE YOU LEARNING?
AS.06.02 Basic: Recognize, Identify, and
Evaluate the effects of disease and
parasites in animals
AS.03.01: ID breeds and species
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Know
Types of birds
Basic Care
Requirements
Gross internal
and external
anatomy
Understand
 Requirements
of differing
types of
species
 Proper care
and disease
prevention
 Physiology of
flight
Do
 Design a care
guide
 Summarize care
practices
 Analyze
homologous
structures
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Unit EQ: How are birds an example of
evolution and homology ?
Concept : Types
Lesson EQ:
How can bird
behavior differ?
Vocab
Parrot, Song
bird,
Socialization
Concept : Care
Lesson EQ:
What are general
care requirements
for all birds?
Vocab
Aviary, Enrichment,
Hand-Fed
Concept : Anatomy
Lesson EQ:
How are birds
adapted to flight?
Vocab
Homology, Remiges,
Digits
Animal Science Level 1
How
could bird
behavior influence
ownership?
 Identify
common pet store birds
 Define characteristics of each type
of bird
 Compare/Contrast types of birds
◦ Concept Map Exercise
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Parakeet (Budgie)
Small Parrot
◦ Conure
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◦ Lovebird
Cockatiel
Finches
Doves
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Canaries
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Colors: Rare, Blue, and Green
For ages: 8 & up, with adult supervision
Pet lifespan: approximately 15-25 years
Pet size: approximately 7" in length
Social
◦ 30 minutes of socializing per day
Intelligent
◦ Whistle Tunes
◦ Low talking ability
Other Behavior
◦ Messy eaters
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Types: Nanday, Green Cheek, Black Cap,
Jenday, Sun, Fancy Green
For ages: 14 & up, with adult supervision
Pet lifespan: approximately 20-30 years
Pet size: approximately 10"-15" in length
Social
◦ 1+ hours of daily interaction
Intelligent
◦ Smart, Easily Trained, “Step-up/Stepdown” for easy handling
Behavior
◦ Messy eaters
◦ Noisy/ Medium speaking ability
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Types: Fisher’s, Peach-faced,
Black-Cheek, Nyasa
For ages: 14 & up, with adult
supervision
Pet lifespan: approximately
15-20 years
Pet size: approximately 6" in
length
Social
◦ 1+ socialization
Intelligent
◦ Easily trained
Behavior
◦ Nest Makers
◦ Chirps (train to whistle)
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Colors: Grey, Lutino,
Cinnamon, Pied
For ages: 12 & up, with
adult supervision
Pet lifespan: approximately
20-30 years
Pet size: approximately 10"12" in length
Social
◦ 1+ hour of interaction per
day
Behavior
◦ Whistlers
◦ Preeners (self groom)
◦ Messy eaters
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Types: Zebra, Society,
Manikin, Cordon Blue,
Gouldian
For ages: 14 & up, with
adult supervision
Pet lifespan:
approximately 5 years
Pet size: approximately
5"-6" in length
Social
◦ No handling, enjoy
seeing people regularly
Behavior
◦ Males sing
◦ Messy eaters
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Types: Rock, Diamond, White,
Pink Ring Neck
For ages: 8 & up, with adult
supervision
Pet lifespan: approximately 2025 years
Pet size: approximately 4"-8" in
length
Social
◦ 15-30 mins per day, handled and
stroked
Behavior
◦ Calm, gentle
◦ Coo (male call)
◦ Need grit (stones for digestion)
◦ Messy eaters
Types: Yellow, Red
Factor, Fancy
For ages: 14 & up, with
adult supervision
Pet lifespan:
approximately 5-25
years
Pet size: approximately
5" in length
Social
◦ No handling, like to
watch people
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Behavior:
◦ Males sing
◦ High metabolic rate
(food always available)
◦ Single or pairs
◦ Messy eaters
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Song bird: 1. a bird that sings, any passerine bird
of the suborder Oscines
Grit: hard stones, kept in crop, used to help grind
(chew) food
Socialization: behavior in a friendly manner
Preen: to trim or dress with the beak or tongue
Parrot: any numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly
colored birds of the order Psittaciformes as the
cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having ability to
mimic speech and often kept as pets
Coo: to utter or imitate the soft, murmuring sound
characteristics of doves
Design a bird
graphic organizer!
 Foldable? Web?
Ven Diagram? Lists
and Categories?
 Take your notes
and organize them
in a pattern that
will help you study
for your Bird ID
Quiz Coming
Soon!
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1. Copy the sentence for each question below
This is a ____________. Examples of this bird
include ___________ and __________. __________
is a common behavior. This might influence
bird ownership because____________________.
Animal Science Level 1
 What
might
have
happened
to this
bird?
 Understand
proper care
of domestic birds
 Outline general rules for
bird care
What
are common
rules of thumb for all
bird care?
 Environment
 Food
 Water
 Enrichment
 Illness
prevention
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Cages:
◦ As roomy as possible. Able to spread wings &
make short flights (exercise)
◦ Metal bars; birds should not be able to fit their
heads through
◦ Horizontal: for birds that like to climb (parakeets etc)
◦ Slide out trays for easy cleaning and less anxiety to
animal
◦ Draft free area
◦ Daily sunlight
◦ Even temperature
Definition: large flying enclosure mimicking a
natural environment
 Indoor:
◦ You control temperature
◦ Often a room devoted to birds
◦ Windows are wired
◦ Door has a double passage way to prevent escape.
 Outdoor
◦ Most natural environment
◦ Must have indoor shelter
◦ Wind breaks (prevent drafts, helps block some noise
◦ Normally all wired and mesh
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Hand Fed: Fed by humans formula via large
syringe.
◦ Pros: More hand friendly and tame
◦ Cons: Time consuming, expensive (formula)
Seeds: Mixture, based on shape and size of beak
◦ Pros: Enrichment for animal
◦ Cons: Birds will over indulge
Seed pellet mix: Condensed nutrients in pellets with
seeds available
◦ Pros: Great variety for enrichment and nutrition
◦ Cons: Many birds eat around pellets
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Fresh fruit and vegetables
◦ Pros: Enrichment, great way to bond with your
animal (sharing food)
◦ Cons: too much can cause damage to digestion
system
Grit
◦ Pros: Required for health digestion system of birds
◦ Cons: Some birds are picky with how grit is
delivered.
Best practice: Mixtures of seeds, pellets, grit and fresh
fruits/vegetables
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Drinking water
◦ Birds should have access at all times to clean
drinking water
 Common methods of providing water
 Provided: Bowls, Gravity watering container
Bathing
◦ Large bowl
◦ No more than 2 inches deep
◦ Most birds must be able to see the bottom
 Marbles, stones, colored bottom
Bathing
◦ Warm to room temperature water
◦ Misting spray bottle as well for thorough cleaning
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Toys
◦ Puzzles
◦ Chew Toys
Cuddle bones: provide needed
minerals, helps trim beaks
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Mirrors
◦ Pros: Birds feel less alone &
talk their reflections
◦ Cons: Birds will be more
comfortable with reflection
and reject owner
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Perches
◦ Different sizes, shapes, and
textures
 Prevents foot stress and
injuries
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Tags/ Bands: Used for ID and
registration for paperwork
Cleaning routine:
Thoroughly clean all perches
and bowls. Replace bedding.
Fresh seeds and fresh water.
Mite prevention: Mite cartons
to help keep mites away from
cages. Also available in
powder
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Aviary: large flying enclosure mimicking a
natural environment
Hand-fed: Fed by humans formula via large
syringe.
Enrichment: make better or improve in
quality
Cuddle bone: provide needed minerals, helps
trim beaks
Perch: Used for sitting: Different sizes, shapes, and
textures
Leg Band: Used for ID and registration for paperwork
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1. Compare and Contrast the Types of bird feed (Page 2)
◦ Complete the graphic organizer for each type mentioned in class
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2. Design a bird food
◦ After learning about the types of bird feed, and their pro’s and
con’s design the perfect bird food
◦ Use any ingredients you wish BUT YOU MUST
 Explain why you used each ingredient
 Give at least 5 ingredients
 COLOR you food example
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3. Design the perfect cage for your bird Pg. 3
◦ Choose your own bird from our notes
◦ Design a cage based on their needs
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Letter to a Friend
Write a 10 sentence (skipping lines) letter to
your friend who recently purchased a bird.
Use your knowledge and notes. Be sure to
include information about
◦ How to determine appropriate cage size, food, and
enrichment toys
◦ What could happen if enrichment is not provided
Animal Science Level 1
 Identify
common Parrot
Diseases
 Explain common treatment
for parrot diseases
 Understand symptoms and
signs of common parrot
diseases
 Why
did
this happen?
 What
is the best way to
prevent parrot disease?
 Symptoms:
lethargy, diarrhea,
ruffled feathers,
sinusitis, anorexia,
conjunctivitis, and
tremors in the
neck, wing and
legs
 Transmission
: through
infected
feces and
nasal
discharge
 Prevention:
Quarantine
shedding
birds, Clean
van blades
and vents
 Symptoms:
irreversible loss
of feathers, shedding of
developing feathers,
development of abnormal
feathers, new pinched
feathers, and loss of powder
down
 Transmission:
through direct
contact, inhalation or
ingestion of aerosols, cropfeeding, infected fecal
material, and feather dust
 Prevention:
Strict
isolation of
all diseased
birds
 Symptoms:
prolific loss of
feathers
 Transmission:
Non transmissible
 Prevention:
◦Birds are very intelligent.
They need socialization and
enrichment daily. Feather
plucking is normally a main
symptom of emotional
distress or upset
 Symptoms:
lethargy,
anorexia, and
diarrhea,
-Transmission: primarily
through the air, shed from an
infected bird in the nasal and
or ocular secretions, fecal
material, and feather dust
 Prevention:
Proper hygiene
 Treatment
note: Can be
treated with
Pepto. 2-3
drops by
mouth once a
day
 Symptoms:
sudden death can
occur, progressive weight
loss in spite of a good
appetite, depression,
diarrhea, increased thirst,
and respiratory difficulty
 Transmission:
by ingestion and
inhalation of
aerosolized
infectious
organisms from
feces.
 Prevention:
minimize stress
and
overcrowding;
Provide proper
ventilation;
Prevent
malnutrition
with a proper
diet
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Lethargy: tired, weak behavior
Powder down: Under feathers, powdered skin from
feather coverings
Non-Transmissible: unable to be given to other
animals
Shedding: Fluffing off of skin cells (carrying
bacteria or viruses)
Aerosol: Air born particles (carrying bacteria or
viruses)
 You’re
the Vet
Pages 4 and 5
Animal Science Level 1
 List
and locate gross avian
anatomy
 Discuss comparative
anatomy
 Understand the concept of
homology
 Get
out your packets and
you will be working on the
Anatomy Pages as we go
through the notes.
 How
are these limbs used?
 How
have birds evolved
for flight?
 Hollow:
air sacs
 Bird bones have bones that
are fused
 Struts/Trusses: for bone
strength without the added
weight
 Extra back bones
(vertebrae) for flexibility
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Writing Prompt: 10 Minutes solid writing.
Make it readable. Complete thoughts and
sentences. Spelling and grammar not a factor
in grading.
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Worksheet 6: Relate it to you Page 6
Example:
 Anatomy
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7
Sheet
 Remiges:
the large quill
feathers of a bird's wing,
main blood supply to
feathers
 Digits: “toes”, able to be
moved for grasping
 Covert:
small feathers
covering the bases of the
longer feathers
 Homology: Same bones,
used for different purposes
by different animals (seal
fin vs. bird wing)
 Writing
Prompt: 10 Minutes solid
writing. Make it readable.
Complete thoughts and
sentences. Spelling and grammar
not a factor in grading. Share with
your partner your thoughts and
give 1 positive, 1 negative about
their prompt
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1. Remiges:2. Homology: 3. Lethargy: 4. Non-Transmissible: 5.
Aerosol: 6. Aviary: 7. Enrichment: 8. Perch:9. Parrot:10. Song
bird:
Describe Homology. What is it? What does it mean for evolution?
Give examples in your answer
LIST the bird diseases and their symptoms.
What are 5 common items you might find in a bird cage?
What is important to understand about bird behavior before
purchasing a bird as a pet?
Explain the importance of enrichment concerning bird health.
(What can happen if they do not receive enough enrichment?)