GENERAL KNOWLEDGE : AVIAN KNOWLEDGE
AVIAN KNOWLEDGE : GK Birds are such a common sight that one often overlooks their amazing characteristics. Birds are warm-blooded vertebrates belonging to the class Aves. Let us find out how much we know about birds. Provide an appropriate word for the following: 1. The shedding of feathers of a bird___________ 2. Study of eggs____________. 3. A pecuilar behaviour of the birds when one species lays its eggs in the nest of another_________________. 4 . An ancient practice of training birds of prey to kill for man_________________. 5. Birds which use their sharp bills for weaving nests______________. 6. A migratory bird which flies from arctic to antarctic and returns every year____________. 7 . A tall flightless australian bird which is often compared to an ostrich_____________. 8. A sea bird which uses its colourful beak to catch and hold many small fish and is found in the atl...