*aves* - -KINGDOM OF JOGA-

“PALAEOGNATHAE”

“RATITE”

“TINAMOU”

“FALCONIFORMES”

“CARINATAE”

A falcon (pronounced /ˈfɔːlkən/ or /ˈfælkən/) is any species of raptor in the genus Falco. The genus contains 37 species, widely distributed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Adult falcons have thin tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high speed and to change direction rapidly. Fledgling falcons, in their first year of flying, have longer flight feathers which makes their configuration more like that of a general-purpose bird such as a broadwing. This makes it easier to fly while learning the exceptional skills required to be effective hunters as adults.

Peregrine Falcons have been recorded diving at speeds of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), making them the fastest-moving creatures on Earth.[1] Other falcons include the Gyrfalcon, Lanner Falcon, and the Merlin. Some small falcons with long narrow wings are called hobbies, and some which hover while hunting are called kestrels. The falcons are part of the family Falconidae, which also includes the caracaras, Laughing Falcon, forest falcons, and falconets.

The traditional term for a male falcon is tercel (British spelling) or tiercel (American spelling), from Latin tertius = third because of the belief that only one in three eggs hatched a male bird.[2][3] Some sources give the etymology as deriving from the fact that a male falcon is approximately one third smaller than the female[4] (Old French tiercelet).

A falcon chick, especially one reared for falconry, that is still in its downy stage is known as an eyas [5][6] (sometimes spelt eyass). The word arose by mistaken division of Old French un niais, from Latin presumed nidiscus (“nestling”, from nidus = nest). The technique of hunting with trained captive birds of prey is known as falconry.

As is the case with many birds of prey, falcons have exceptional powers of vision; one species has a visual acuity of 2.6 times that of a normal human.[7]

In February 2005, the Canadian ornithologist Louis Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian intelligence in terms of a bird’s innovation in feeding habits. The falcon and corvids scored highest on this scale

*BUTEO MAGNIROSTRIS GOIAS*

*FALCO PEREGRINUS TETHERED*

*NANKEEEN KESTREL*
(midflight)

Osprey

osprey (Pandion haliaetus) sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey.

large raptor, reaching 60 centimetres (24 in) in length with a 2m wingspan. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and wings.

The Osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.

As its other common name suggests, the Osprey’s diet consists almost exclusively of fish. It has evolved specialised physical characteristics and exhibits unique behaviour to assist in hunting and catching prey. As a result of these unique characteristics, it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion and family, Pandionidae. Four subspecies are usually recognised. Despite its propensity to nest near water, the Osprey is not a sea-eagle.

*FOWLS*

“ANSERIFORMES”

the waterfowl genus anser includes all grey geese (and usually the white geese)

the waterfowl genus anser includes all grey geese (and usually the white geese)
belongs to the true geese and swan subfamily ( Anserinae). The genus has a Holarctic distribution, with at least one species breeding in any open, wet habitats in the subarctic and cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in summer. Some also breed further south, reaching into warm temperate regions. They mostly migrate south in winter, typically to regions in the temperate zone between the January 0 °C (32 °F) to 5 °C (41 °F) isotherms.
The genus contains ten living species, which span nearly the whole range of true goose shapes and sizes. The largest is the Greylag Goose at 2.5-4.1 kg (5.5-9 lb) weight, and the smallest is the Ross’s Goose at 1.2-1.6 kg. All have legs and feet that are pink, or orange, and bills that are pink, orange, or black. All have white under- and upper-tail coverts, and several have some extent of white on their heads. The neck, body and wings are grey or white, with black or blackish primary – and also often secondary – remiges (pinions).

The closely related “black” geese in the genus Branta differ in having black legs, and generally darker body plumage

(‘recreational bird-watching’ is an important part of the ‘eco-tourism industry’)

*BIRDWATCHING*

“our reptilian brains”

“are you a lizard?”

(“birds” (aka ‘aves’) are a group of ‘endothermic vertebrates’, characterized by

‘feathers’,

‘toothless beaked jaws’,

the ‘laying of hard-shelled eggs’,

a ‘high metabolic rate’,

‘4-chambered heart’,

and a strong yet lightweight ‘skeleton’

(‘birds’ live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) ‘bee hummingbird’ to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ‘ostrich’)

(they rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species, at approximately ten thousand, with more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as ‘perching birds’)

(‘birds’ are the closest living relatives of ‘crocodilians’)

(“birds” are descendants of extinct dinosaurs with feathers, making them the only surviving dinosaurs according to “cladistics”)

(the fossil record indicates that birds evolved from feathered ancestors within the theropod group, which are traditionally placed within the saurischian dinosaurs, though a 2017 paper has put them in a proposed clade Ornithoscelida, along with the ‘ornithischia’)

(‘true birds’ first appeared during the ‘cretaceous period’, around 120 million years ago)

(DNA-based evidence finds that birds diversified dramatically around the time of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene extinction event 66 million years ago, which reduced the ‘pterosaurs’, and killed off all the non-avian dinosaur lineages)

(‘birds’, especially those in the southern continents, survived this event and then migrated to other parts of the world while diversifying during periods of ‘global cooling’)

(primitive bird-like dinosaurs that lie outside class Aves proper, in the broader group Avialae, have been found dating back to the mid-Jurassic period, around 170 million years ago)

(many of these early “stem-birds”, such as Archaeopteryx, were not yet capable of fully powered flight, and many retained primitive characteristics like toothy jaws in place of beaks, and long bony tails)

(‘birds’ have wings which are more or less developed depending on the species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and ‘elephant birds’)

(‘wings’, which evolved from forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in flightless birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species of ‘birds’)

(the digestive and respiratory systems of birds are also uniquely adapted for ‘flight’)

(some bird species of aquatic environments, particularly seabirds and some waterbirds, have further evolved for ‘swimming’)

(some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intelligent animals; several bird species make and use tools, and many social species pass on knowledge across generations, which is considered a form of culture)

(many species annually migrate great distances)

(‘birds’ are social, communicating with visual signals, calls, and bird songs, and participating in such social behaviours as cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of ‘predators’)

(the vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous (referring to social living arrangement, distinct from genetic monogamy), usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life)

(other species have breeding systems that are polygynous (arrangement of one male with many females) or, rarely, polyandrous (arrangement of one female with many males))

(‘birds’ produce offspring by laying eggs which are fertilized through ‘sexual reproduction’)

(they are usually laid in a nest and incubated by the parents)

(most birds have an extended period of parental care after ‘hatching’)

(some birds, such as ‘hens’, lay eggs even when not fertilized, though unfertilized eggs do not produce offspring)

(many species of birds are economically important as food for human consumption and raw material in manufacturing, with domesticated and undomesticated birds (poultry and game) being important sources of eggs, meat, and ‘feathers’)

(‘songbirds’, parrots, and other species are popular as ‘pets’)

(‘guano’ (bird excrement) is harvested for use as a ‘fertilizer’)

(‘birds’ prominently figure throughout ‘human culture’)

(about 120–130 species have become extinct due to human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then)

(‘human activity’ threatens about 1,200 bird species with extinction, though efforts are underway to protect them)

*GALLIFORMES* –>

*FOWL*

*PARROTS*

“COCKATOO”

“NEW ZEALAND PARROTS”

“TRUE PARROTS”

“LORIKEET”

“PUERTO RICAN AMAZONS”

Endangered Puerto Rican parrot ceremonially released at the new flight cage of the flight cages at the Iguaca Aviary. Saturday April 28, 2007 Photo by Tom MacKenzie

*PASSERINE*
(so sublime)

true finch is a passerine bird

“FINCH”

“AMERICAN GOLDFINCH”

AMERICAN GOLDFINCH

(north american bird of the finch family)

“PELECANIFORMES”

“IBIS”

“PICIFORMES”

“WOODPECKER”

“PROCELLARIFORMES”

“ALBATROSS”

“DIVING PETRELS”

*’PETRELS’ + ‘SHEARWATERS’*

“STORM PETRELS”

*SANDGROUSE*

“SPHENISCIFORMES*

“TROGONS”

*TROPIC-BIRDS*

“BIRDWATCHING”

“dead ducks”

*DOO-DOO BIRDS*

“gallinula mortieri”

“purple swamphen – pukek02”

“LAMPOTORNIS HILDEBR TANZANIA”

WALDRAPP GERONTICUS EREMITA”

“ROCKIN’ ROBINS*

*WATER BIRDS*

“ducks”

“GREY GEESE”

“HOVERERS”

“SWANS”

*CARTOONS*

AVES

NEOGNATHAE

FOWLS

GALLIFORMES

PHASIANIADAE

TURKEY

CHICKEN

(a domesticated fowl)
(subspecies of the “red junglefowl”)

(there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird)

drumstick
(leg of the animal)

and drumsticks

buffalo chicken

(white meat chicken)
(i prefer “dark meat”)

14 DECEMBER 2015:

(buffalo chicken wrap from wawa)
(courtesy of brother jon)

5 JUNE 2014:

(ate my last chicken + noodles meal)

(stir before and after microwave for 1 minute)

two more chicken ramen noodles left…

spent over $20 on wendys

(a triple burger / large fries / large coke / chicken sandwich)

(the mexican cashier let me slide on the extra 28 cents)

castrato eats like a child

(chicken fingers + french fries from the A+B)

(i take the leftovers)

and pizza from mamouns

went to the diner…but they didn’t get my call?…omelette / hash browns / salad bar…loaded up at salad bar with chicken salad and pasta…

got 3 white castle packs / 5 chicken cheese burritos / 2 french bread pizza boxes…ate 10 burgers and 2 burritos before passing out past 10am…stayed in bed watching football until 4:30pm…then the indian came by to fix something in the bathroom…that’s my cue to load up on booze…

4 chicken burritos / chicken dumpling microwave / chicken breast mashed potato microwave / beef tips mashed potato microwave / snickers peanut butter / twix / iced coffee / monsters…

but by 3am i still wasn’t ready…so i ate some nutrisystem chicken tortilla soup (with a fork) and chili w/ beans and passed out…

the little chinese lady gave me a frozen chicken and said i could cook in microwave

defrost the chicken

putting frozen chicken in fridge

chicken / yogurt dip / salad

indian chicken dinner

(such a tightly wrapped grilled chicken sandwich!)
(courtesy of parents)

chicken cutlet A+G sandwich in late afternoon
(nothing better!)

chicken cutlet / cavatelle and broccoli and sausage / salt and vinegar herr’s kettle cooked potato chips

microwave white chicken

along with italian chicken soup and peanut butter sandwiches…

chicken sandwich

did i burn myself cooking chicken?

sean won’t leave me alone so i ate a huge bowl of his chicken salad in front of him with a spoon

(it was admittedly delicious but it meant i had to go to sleep)

i ate the rest of sean’s chicken salad

i got a buffalo chicken wrap (without tomatoes), a pepsi bottle (20 fluid ounces) and a bag of sea salt + vinegar chips

2 mcchickens (with tomato)

now he is cooking chicken salad (without celery)

(just chicken mayonaisse onions)

(he didn’t learn from his grandmother)

(it was probably gregory’s paternal grandmother)

i ate a big bowl (after kissing nebuchanezzer multiple times)

he probably polished off the rest before bed

(so i ate three chicken patties with his bread)

(damkani brought me three chicken dumplings with BBQ sauce)

ANSERIFORMES

apodiformes
caprimulgiformes
charadriiformes
ciconiiformes
columbiformes
coraciiformes

cuculiformes:

osprey (Pandion haliaetus) sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey.

large raptor, reaching 60 centimetres (24 in) in length with a 2m wingspan. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and wings.

“roadside hawk”
(latin america)

flamingos

gaviiformes

grebe

gruiformes

hoatzin

mousebirds

new world vulture

owls

parrots:

(cockatoo)

(new zealand parrot)

(true parrot:)

african grey:

(nebuchadezzar 2:)

lorikeet:

platycercinae:

puerto rican amazon:

passerine:

old world blackbirds, 5 species belonging to the genus Turdus:

a pair of bananaquits (coereba flaveola), small passerine birds averaging 11 cm (4.3 in) in length native to tropical South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Its curved beak is adapted to taking nectar from flowers, but they will also eat fruit and insects.

(finch:)

american goldfinch
(north american bird)

pelecaniformes:

(ibis)
(long down-curved beaks)

piciformes:

woodpecker
(not found in australia, new zealand, madagascar, extreme polar regions)

procellariiformes:

(albatross)
(diving petrels)
(petrels and shearwaters)
(storm petrels)

sandgrouse

sphenisciformes

trogons

tropic birds

PALAEOGNATHE

RATITE

TINAMOU

Palaeognathae, or paleognaths, is one of the two living clades of birds – the other being Neognathae. Together, these two clades form the clade Neornithes. Palaeognathae contains five extant branches of flightless lineages (plus two extinct clades), termed ratites, and one flying lineage, the Neotropic tinamous.^[2][3] There are 47 species of tinamous, 5 of kiwis (Apteryx), 3 of cassowaries (Casuarius), 1 of emus (Dromaius) (another became extinct in historic times), 2 of rheas and 2 of ostrich.^[4]Recent research has indicated that paleognaths are monophyletic but the traditional taxonomic split between flightless and flighted forms is incorrect; tinamous are within the ratite radiation, meaning flightlessness arose independently multiple times via parallel evolution.^[5]

There are three extinct groups, the Lithornithiformes, the Dinornithiformes (moas) and the Aepyornithiformes (elephant birds), that are undisputed members of Palaeognathae. There are other extinct birds which have been allied with the Palaeognathae by at least one author, but their affinities are a matter of dispute.

The word Paleognath is derived from the ancient Greek for “old jaws” in reference to the skeletal anatomy of the palate, which is described as more primitive and reptilian than that in other birds.^[6] Paleognathous birds retain some basal morphological characters but are by no means living fossils as their genomes continued to evolve at the DNA level under selective pressure at rates comparable to the Neognathae branch of living birds, though there is some controversy about the precise relationship between them and the other birds.

There are also several other scientific controversies about their evolution (see below)

FALCONIFORMES

a falcon (pronounced /ˈfɔːlkən/ or /ˈfælkən/) is any species of raptor in the genus falco. the genus contains 37 species, widely distributed throughout europe, asia, and north america.

As is the case with many birds of prey, falcons have exceptional powers of vision; one species has a visual acuity of 2.6 times that of a normal human.[7]

290 species

CARINATAE

carinatae is the group of all birds and their extinct relatives to possess a keel, or “carina”, on the underside of the breastbone used to anchor large flight muscles