WFC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sunbittern, Kagu, Cursorial

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology
• Course: WFC 111
• Professor: Eadie John

Document Summary

All groups are cryptic night birds with the exception of. Nocturnal birds with relatively large head, short neck. Bill short, flattened, with wide gape usually surrounded by rictal bristles. Insect hunters that catch insects on the wing (except oilbird which feds on oily palm fruit) Habitat: varies; open forest, rainforest, brush, open woodland. Behavior: one or two eggs on ground or simple twig nest; chicks semi altricial (helpless but downy) Taxonomic notes: paraphyletic; may be split into several orders. Frogmouths of australia the size of big owls. Males of some african and south american species have long tail streamers or long racquets off their wings. Received it"s name from goat-herders who heard that (cid:364)jarring(cid:365) calls at night and attributed the failure of the goats to give milk to activity of these birds. Conservation status: 0 extinct, 8 threatened (7%) Highly aerial, with long wings, tiny feet. Bill short, flattened, with broad gape (swifts); long & slender, straight or decurved (hummingbirds)