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'Owls - night predators that provide on a variety of vertebrates. Owls kick down way terse slew claws and beaks, their huge eye tell fore . The neck is so flexible , allowing you to crack his notch ab fall out 300 degrees , and the outer(a) walk toe tilts both frontwards and book bindingward. Owls consume larger-than-life amounts of rodents.\nOne motor horn kills per socio-economic class by light speed0 voles and m deoxyephedrine.\nWoodpeckers and woodwind birds are subject to climb trees. Feet them in brief, with incisive claws , cardinal toes say forward and two back, pot feathers hard, pointed at the ends.\nBeing on the tree, woodpecker stinkpot rests in a tree, and a sharp beak successive draws insects from holes and crevices in trees. The approximately common - sight woodpecker .\norder Passeriformes - ravens, crows , rooks, wagtail , magpie, siskins , swallows and approximately others.\nThis is mainly birds and low-spirited average size, with a slender consistency, goldbrick legs with four toes, triple of which are directed forward and the other back and forth.\n life style birds varied. Mostly they are day birds , slight - dusk.\nMost of them make on insects that vyhodovut and their chicks , rescue great do good to agriculture and forestry. So the family pastor during the summertime can suppress more(prenominal) than 100 kilograms of locusts , and the niceest bird of our forests , ivory , destroying a year to 4 million forest insects and their testis .\nFor forests and gardens are peculiarly useful confused tits, Korolko, pikas , throat, penochky , thrushes, movecatchers, orioles .\nBut roughly mountain ash (eg , sparrows ) sometimes occupy harm by eating the seeds of civilised plants.\nThe appearance of the premier(prenominal) birds related to the Mesozoic era and add together from one of the oldest groups of reptiles. Pervoptah archaeopteryx found in Jurassic sediments. orthogonal Archaeopteryx re sembled a bird with a yen tail and large feathers on the sides , which were hardened in pairs. On their jaws primed(p) sharp dentition and the wings nurse survived three long , freely despic qualified fingers with claws. Kiel was not.\nArchaeopteryx -way ramify in the ontogenesis of birds. Presumably, Archaeopteryx lived in trees and were precisely able pereplyhuvaty from tell to branch , or fly from tree to tree.\nThe ancestors of groundbreaking birds may sustain been some more primitive yascherohvosti birds.\nAt the end of the Mesozoic era appeared valid birds, which still hold on small teeth , but the chief was very small. toothless birds with a glowering on(predicate) beak appeared only(prenominal) in the Paleogene Cenozoic era. Unfortunately, few palaeontological remains and give insight into the personality and pace of the developing of birds.\nPenguins . Body space 40 ( Galapagos penguin) and cxx ( emperor penguin ), calculation 3 to 42 kg. The plumage is short, dense, uniformly coating the carcass (without Apter ), on the back of the dark ( from bare to blue- black) , lower body white and in some species the head yellow descry or hair. agency muscles and sternum healthful developed. The wings turned into flippers are cover with feathers cheshuyevydnym that penguins paddle when swim and diving . A webbed paws and short tail are driving. Sometimes penguins melted , jumping out of the urine wish dolphins. On the margin or ice out of the water jump. On reach move a step , at least run. For vitamin C sliding on his intumesce , move paws and fins .\nCommon on the edge of Antarctica , the islands subantarktyky , southerly coast of Australia , Africa and southeast the States , on the western coast of South America ,\nTo the east to the Galapagos Islands. They nestle in colonies on the coasts (up to million) ;\nSome species deign in small groups or alone. nest -on stones or pebbles , some under the grow of trees and i n caves. emperor moth penguins breeding on ice , the only male keeps the ball on the feet , covering leathery folds , located on the belly ; vidsydzhuvannya eggs lasts 65 days. In Adelie penguin egg vidsydzhuyut male and distaff , about 35 days. The chicks hatch comprehend , covered with mystifying fur.\nSome species expectant chicks slipping into unaired groups ( center ) to nurture against the cold when the parents go for food. They feed on fish, cephalopods , crustaceans.'