Kids 30: Birds

1. Macaw

Military Macaw

Macaws are a species of parrot that has a long colorful tail and larger beak. Macaws eat primarily seeds, nuts, and fruit. using their beaks they break open the seed and eat up. A macaw is a brightly coloured bird that comes in a variety of different colours and breeds, such as the macaw:red and blue or yellow and blue.. red tailed macaw:black with a red tail.. Yello tailed macaw:black with a yellow tail.

Scarlet macaw, blue-and-yellow macaw, and military macaw

Wing clipped Scarlet macaws

Blue-and-yellow macaw (left) and blue-throated macaw (right)

Kookaburras

The are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus Dacelo native to Australia and New Guinea, which grow to between 28–42 cm (11–17 in) in length. The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra, onomatopoeic of its call. The loud distinctive call of the laughing kookaburra is widely used as a stock sound effect in situations that involve an Australian bush setting.

Laughing Kookaburra

Winged kookaburra

Cardinal

They are robust, seed-eating birds with strong bills. The family's smallest member is the 12-cm (4.7-in), 11.5-g (0.40-oz) orange-breasted bunting. They are typically associated with open woodland. The sexes usually have distinctive appearances. The northern cardinal type species was named by colonists for the male's red crest, reminiscent of a Catholic cardinal's biretta

Male Cardinal

Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis Sinuatus

The Great Horned Owl

It is named for the tufts OF feathers that sit atop its head. The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet is rabbits and hares, rats and mice and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, including rodents and other small mammals, larger mid-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates.

King Fisher

Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found outside the Americas. The family contains 114 species and is divided into three subfamilies and 19 genera. All kingfishers have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with only small differences between the sexes.