Passerine

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/passerine

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific name?Passeriformes
2. What makes passerines the most common birds on Earth?They make up more than half of all living bird species. Their many adaptations let them live in almost every land habitat.
3. How do passerines use their feet to perch on different surfaces?Their feet are arranged anisodactyl, giving them a strong grip on twigs and even man-made structures. This lets them rest and hunt in many places.

Adaptive Radiation: The diversification of a group of organisms into forms filling different ecological niches.
Vocal Learning: The ability of an animal to learn and modify its vocalizations through experience, observed in some bird species.
Speciation: The evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.
Anthropogenic: Originating in human activity.