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How do birds use their beak? Like our instruments, a bird's beak has different functions, but unlike humans, a bird always carries it with it. uses its short, sharp beak as a drill, building a nest for chicks, and above all foraging. Shape indicates function, and a bird's diet can be determined by its beak. The beak is thin and long so that you can get to the nectar in the flower.

The macaw parrot needs to supplement its fruit diet with kaolin, it gets it from the seeds, which it breaks with its powerful beak. To a close dependence on conifers indicates unusual shape beak. The ends of the upper and lower parts of the beak cross, which helps the bird to bend the scales of the cones with them and extract seeds from them.

Not a single bird the globe there is no such extraordinary beak as a kiwi. In this bird, it is long, curved, about 20 cm. There are two holes at the very tip of the kiwi's beak. These are the nostrils. Olfactory nerves extend to them from the brain. With this beak, the kiwi literally sniffs out its prey: and their larvae, snails and earthworms.

In the spring, as soon as the water leaves the flooded banks, black streaks of silt remain. It is then that chains of crosses and holes are visible on the dirt. This means that the forest sandpiper was eating here. It runs through the wet silt back and forth, as if dancing, and constantly plunges its beak into the mud. It has special tactile endings on the delicate tip of its beak, which it wields like fingers. It will launch its golden-rusty beak into the muddy slurry, find a worm there, and drag it out. And where the sandpiper pokes with its beak, such holes remain. Tweezers for probing silt, they also have harpoons for catching fish and eels, ibises and herons. The beaks of waterfowl are also varied. The pelican's beak is equipped with an elastic bag, stretching, it can hold up to 14 liters of water along with prey.

The flamingo uses its unusual beak as a sieve, sifting out microscopic crustaceans from the silt, containing a pigment that gives the feathers a pink tint. The water cutter, flying over the surface of the water with the lower part of the beak, literally removes the cream from the water.

But the most unusual and deceiving beak belongs to the toucan. Looks impressive, but in fact it is hollow and sharp, and it takes a long, thin tongue to push food down the throat.

Birds and their amazing beaks. Material with photos and crosswords.

To children about birds. Riddles of the structure of the beak of birds. Associations.

Bityugova Tatyana Gennadievna, speech therapist, GBDOU number 81, St. Petersburg
Purpose: this material can be used in full for senior classes as part of the lesson, in part, with children of preschool, junior school age; will be useful for educators, teachers, educators additional education, for bird lovers.
Target: enrichment of knowledge about birds
Tasks:
- expand children's knowledge of birds
- develop observation, imagination, memory, associative thinking
- develop fine motor skills, eye ...
- foster interest in solving entertaining problems
- to cultivate love and respect for birds and for all living things.

When considering birds, we always pay attention not only to its size and color, but also to its beak. Each bird has a different beak. Its structure depends on the environment in which the bird lives and what, and most importantly, how it feeds.
Birds of prey usually have hooked, sharp beaks capable of tearing apart prey.
Granivorous birds have short, strong beaks that help the bird break and crush seeds and grains.
In carnivorous birds, beaks are sharp and rather thin.
Birds living in water are distinguished by flat beaks with plates and teeth.
And there are birds that have very unusual beaks. Birds with such beaks cannot be confused with anyone and you will remember right away.
When talking with children about birds, you can offer to compare the beaks of birds with objects they look like, as well as lead children to especially memorable associations.

Crossbill: the beak is similar to scissors with curved ends. The bunch pulls the seeds out of the cones, lifting the scales with the ends of a cruciform beak.

Flamingo: the beak is like a colander. The bird filters the water through its beak in search of crustaceans, algae, molluscs, insect larvae.

Hoopoe: the beak resembles tweezers. With its beak, the hoopoe pokes in the ground and after finding insects, larvae, worms, he kneads them for a long time with his "tweezers" and only after that swallows them whole.

Woodpecker: the beak is similar to a jackhammer. The woodpecker hollows the bark of trees in search of insects and their larvae, and also bites cones, “processing” nuts on stumps.

Bullfinch: the beak resembles pliers. It crushes seeds, buds and berries of plants.

Parrot: beak like wire cutters. He bites nuts and seeds with his beak.

Hummingbird: beak like a cocktail straw. With its help, the bird sucks in the nectar of flowers.

Heron: the beak resembles a surgical clamp. A sharp beak with a serrated edge helps the bird to snatch fish and amphibians out of the water.

Nightjar: the beak is like a large butterfly net. The bird in flight opens its beak wide and catches insects with the help of the bristles surrounding the beak.

Pelican: beak like a bucket. The pelican catches fish, scooping it up with its beak, like a bucket.

Spoonbill: the beak resembles a strainer. The bird moves its beak under water from side to side in search of prey and captures small aquatic inhabitants.

Golden eagle: beak like pruning shears. The golden eagle tears apart its prey, tearing off and swallowing small pieces.

Avocet: the beak is similar to the probe of a sapper. The awl looks for invertebrates in the water, as well as insects, crustaceans, and seeds of aquatic plants. With her beak, she leads from side to side and feels the muddy places of small reservoirs.

Kingfisher: a beak like a lance, a spear. The bird looks out for small fish, insects, sometimes frogs, tadpoles from the air, then dives and more often not only catches, but pierces its prey with its beak, then removes it from its beak, throws it up, catches it with its beak and then eats it whole.

Dead end: the beak resembles a net with hooks. Surprisingly, the puffin can continue to fish without releasing the already caught fish from its beak. With his tongue, he directs the fish deep into the beak, as if stringing it on a skewer and clinging to the thorn hooks located on the upper part of the beak and continues hunting for the next fish.

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Task number 1
For those who were very attentive during the study of this material, it will not be difficult to solve the following puzzle.

To solve it, you need to write in the boxes the names of birds, whose beaks are similar to the objects depicted.
Then find the beginning of the puzzle (arrow) and, moving along the lines from letter to letter, read folk wisdom.

To make it easier to read, you can highlight the letters with a red pencil.

"Every bird is fed with its beak"- that's how popular wisdom says.

Task number 2
Name the eight birds in the pictures and write their names in the boxes.

Then pay attention to the letters in the purple squares and write them down separately in order. You will read the name of the ninth bird - one of the most mysterious creatures on earth.

This is a whale head or a royal heron. This bird feeds on fish, catches frogs, snakes and young turtles. Kitoglav has tremendous patience. Without moving, with his head lowered into the water, he patiently waits for a fish to appear nearby.

Sometimes he walks very slowly and carefully in the reed thickets until future prey appears on the surface. Then he immediately spreads his wings and rushes forward, trying to catch the victim with his large beak with a sharp hook at the end. After a successful hunt, the bird first separates the prey from the plants, and then swallows the edible part.
Task number 3
You can invite children to fantasize and draw pictures depicting objects that resemble the beak of a whale head.

Thank you for attention.

Beak beak

(rostrum), the organ of birds, formed by elongated toothless jaws, clothed with a horny cover - ramfoteka. The functions of K. are very diverse, which is reflected in the variety of its forms. Serves for grasping prey, dismembering it, for touching, attacking and defending, for movement, for chiselling, digging, sounding the ground, as well as for complex actions associated with the care of plumage, building a nest, etc. food. specialization. Pl. the base of the birds is the top, parts of the K. (upper beak) are covered with wax. In birds that do not have waxes, the proximal part of the ramphoteca of the beak, gradually becoming thinner, passes into the skin of the frontal part of the skull. In avian embryos, an egg tooth is formed at the apex of the beak. The variety of functions of K. is partly ensured by the mobility of the beak, which is carried out due to the kineticism of the skull. Beak and lower movements. parts of K. - mandibles - are coordinated by a differentiated chewing system. muscles. Int. Some fossil birds (hesperornis-like) had teeth on the edge of Kazakhstan. Beak-like formations are found in cloacal mammals, turtles, and biplane cephalopods.

.(Source: "Biological encyclopedic Dictionary. " Ch. ed. M. S. Gilyarov; Editorial board .: A. A. Babaev, G. G. Vinberg, G. A. Zavarzin et al. - 2nd ed., Revised. - M .: Sov. Encyclopedia, 1986.)

beak

An organ formed by elongated jaw bones, often covered with a horny sheath - ramfoteka. Beaks of various shapes are characteristic of birds, cephalopods, joint-jaw fishes, turtles, beak-headed (tuatara), cloacal (echidna, platypus), and toothed whales (beaked and beak-headed). The beak consists of a beak and a mandible. At the base of the beak, there are paired openings of the nostrils, a waxworm devoid of plumage, or the corneous sheath gradually passes into the skin in the forehead (in cranes). The various actions of the beak are determined mainly by the mobility of the beak, the movements of which are clearly coordinated by the system of chewing muscles and movements of the mandible. With a few exceptions (owls and others predator birds), birds take food with their beak. It is food specialization that mainly determines the size, shape and some features of its structure. The beak is also used for plumage maintenance, nest building, defense and attack, it is used in complex mating behavior, etc. Birds that get food from water, flowers, folds of bark, cracks in stones or from the ground have long beaks that often correspond to long necks and legs (egrets, waders). To keep alive, often large food, the beak is equipped with a steep hook on the upper beak (some birds of prey, cormorants), or a barb (in falcons). The beak is short, but with a large slit in the mouth, surrounded by rigid bristles, typical of birds catching insects in flight. Have crossbills the jaws of the beak cross crosswise, which facilitates the lifting of scales and the husking of seeds from cones of conifers. The beak of granivores (finches) is short, strong, wide and high, with grooves and ridges on the palate. The corneous plates and denticles along the edges of the wide beak form a filter apparatus (in geese). Flamingos have a massive beak bent downward in a knee-like manner.

.(Source: "Biology. Modern illustrated encyclopedia." Ed. A. P. Gorkin; Moscow: Rosmen, 2006.)

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BEAK, beak, husband. Horny bivalve end of the mouth in birds, turtles and monotremes, serving for pecking and striking. Eagle's beak. Sharp beak. Explanatory dictionary Ushakov. D.N. Ushakov. 1935 1940 ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

A; m. The horny elongated bivalve end of the mouth in birds, as well as in some other animals (for example, turtles). A woodpecker hollows the bark of a tree with its beak. K. eagle. ◁ Beak, a; m. Reduced. caress. The chicks opened their beaks. * * * the beak is an organ in birds, ... ... encyclopedic Dictionary

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BEAK, ah, husband. In birds: a horny formation of two elongated, closing jaws. Eagle k. Peck, gouge with a beak. | decrease. beak, ah, husband. Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

BEE, bite, see bite. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary. IN AND. Dahl. 1863 1866 ... Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

Among more than 10,000 bird species, there are birds with bizarre beaks. Shape and color indicate a personality and unique function that is rarely found in other species. Some types of beaks are so strange that only one species of bird on the planet can boast of them. It is about such bird beaks that we will tell you.

10. Kitoglav (Shoebill)

This huge heron-like bird roams the great swamps in East Africa... Their huge beaks resemble a Dutch shoe, while the curved tip only enhances the resemblance. Whale head storks can ingest catfish, frogs, and even lungfish, along with occasional birds and mammals. This species can reach almost one and a half meters in height, with a weight of 5.5 kilograms. Gray birds with pale eyes stand still for a long period of time and suddenly plunge their beak into the water. Despite their big size, whale heads can walk on floating vegetation as they chase their prey.

9. Wrybill


This coastal bird, which belongs to the family Charadriidae and lives near rivers, with rims on whitish-gray plumage, looks like one of the most common birds in the world until you look closely at its beak. The bent to the side, wavy "curved beak" gives the bird an advantage when searching for food, since the bow-nosed plover with the help of its beak sifts stones in its habitat on the banks of rivers. The curved beak helps the bird to reach and conveniently extract prey, consisting of crustaceans and insects from under the stones. The beak is always curved to the right.

8. American Curlew (Long-billed Curlew)


Curlews have long been known in Europe due to the popular fiction and cultural references, however, the North American curlew is the longest-beaked curlew of the entire family of chalice. Like many snipe, American curlews actually live far inland, far from oceans and even freshwater bodies. They nest in meadows. This species uses its huge beak as a scythe, catching not aquatic animals, but grasshoppers, crickets and other small field invertebrates. American curlews migrate great distances. During migration season, they can be seen in coastal habitats. The pale beige plumage and long, curved beak, which can be up to twenty centimeters in length, make this bird like a blade when it hunts for prey.

7. Surf Scoter


Ducks are known to quack, but in fact, sea-dwelling ducks make a huge variety of sounds. In addition, the typical yellow beak seen on mallards or farm ducks is not universal for all ducks. Ducks can be divided into several categories: river ducks and sea ducks. Ocean waterfowl have some of the strangest beaks among birds. The variegated scooper, which has an almost entirely black plumage and has adapted to feeding on mollusks, boasts a huge shellfish beak, which allows it to easily pick up large prey from the ocean floor. Black, orange and beige patterns on the male's beak make him especially bright, while the large nasal openings look like a transparent tunnel passes through his beak. Spotted scoopers live along North American coastal lines and travel north during nesting season. When they gather in large schools, a strange cry can be heard on the water, more like a whistle.

6. Sword Billed Hummingbird


Sword-beak hummingbird from South America inhabits a range of habitats where deep fuchsia flowers are common. In order to climb into these flowers and collect nectar, the sword-billed hummingbird has a beak that makes it perfectly adapted to this lifestyle and gives it an extremely unique appearance. The beak of this spectacular, bright green bird reaches a whopping 10 centimeters and is the only beak in the world that is longer than the bird that possesses it. In this species, the tongue also stretches much further than in other species. When flying, it is clear that it is very difficult for a bird to fly with such a weight in front of the body; nevertheless, this adaptation helped it find its ecological niche.

5. Great Merganser (Common Merganser)


The Great Merganser resembles the average duck, but in fact it is a living example of a prehistoric concept or even a concept from science fiction - a ferocious hunting bird with razor-sharp teeth. This duck's beak is dotted with over 100 treacherous "teeth" that extend from the edges of each jaw. This species is the largest of the entire genus of merganser and lives on estuaries, lakes, rivers and large ponds throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The teeth of this fish-eating bird allow it to easily grab fish, tear it apart and eat it. This toothy killer also feeds from time to time on small mammals, as well as frogs or reptiles that get on the menu if they get too close to this bird. In flight, large mergansers are one of the most fast birds and can reach speeds in excess of 80 kilometers per hour. The big merganser is also one of the most large species ducks.

4. Black Skimmer


The three types of water cutters are waterfowl, endemic to the rivers and oceans of Asia, South America, North America and Africa. A unique feature of these striking black and white birds with large heads is that they have disproportionate mandibles, as the lower jaw protrudes much further than the upper jaw. Black water cutters fly along the water at high speeds, and their Bottom part beak cuts a channel in the water. Every time a fish or shrimp meets in the path of the channel, the beak slams shut and the bird swallows the prey. However, such an extreme lifestyle is not without certain risks, so from time to time, birds have collisions with underwater objects. The beaks of the water cutters are very colorful, with red and black strokes. They also use their pointed beaks to kill gulls that invade their nesting sites.

3. Roseate Spoonbill


The pink spoonbills found in the Florida Everglades are pink flamingos and even resemble these birds from afar. They look very bright and unusual. However, this pink plumage does not hide the grotesque and dinosaur-like appearance their muzzles, as well as body parts without feathers. Spoonbill has an enormous, flat beak that resembles a one yard ruler. At the end of the beak, its shape becomes more rounded. The huge spatula carried by this bird gives it easy access to a variety of aquatic animals and nutritious food sources in the warm, shallow swampy waters where it feeds. Spoonbills can often be seen feeding along with herons, storks and cranes.

2. Crossbill


Different kinds crossbills, belonging to the finch family, look like canaries and live in the coniferous forests of the Northern Hemisphere. While walking in nature in Canada and Scotland, you are most likely to see representatives of one or more species of crossbill. These colorful red or yellow finches have beaks that curve in opposite directions, giving them a bizarre and deformed appearance. Different types of crossbills have little different forms beaks that allow them to focus on their specific adaptations to available food sources. The activity of the crossbills can be seen at ground level by the number of discarded cones that are plucked by these parrot-like songbirds with curved beaks.

1. American Woodcock


Bird beaks should be rigid probes or appendages for picking up and pecking. However, some coastal birds have more bizarre jaw adaptations. Woodcocks from the snipe family have disproportionately long beaks. They live in moist forests and bushes, where there is mud and moist soil from which they extract invertebrates. The woodcock's beak is equipped with nerve endings that allow it to be used as an effective sensory organ. Most incredible, however, is the woodcock's ability to flex its beak for added control and maneuverability as it digs through the forest floor and grabs prey. Among its victims are earthworms, beetle larvae and other small invertebrates. The beak of this bird feels soft and flesh-like to the touch compared to that of many closely related species.

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Cognitive research project on the topic: "Why do birds need a beak?" Completed by: pupil preparatory group Domnich Valentina Supervisor: educator Kusainova Natalya Vladimirovna. MBDOU "Kulikovsky kindergarten", 2016

Relevance of the topic: At my home and in kindergarten a lot of books, pictures, encyclopedias, stories about animals. I really like birds! Birds are animals too. They have wings, feathers, clawed paws and a beak. I wondered if a bird's beak is a nose or a mouth? And what is it for?

Hypothesis: I suppose that birds need a beak not for beauty, they need it to get food and is associated with their living conditions, so the beaks of birds are different.

Purpose: - to find out why birds need a beak. Objectives: - to get acquainted with the variety of birds and their features; - find out how and what birds eat; - to collect information about the shape of the beaks.

Job description: To find out what birds need a beak, my mother and teacher helped me. We read books, watched programs about animals and even looked for answers to my questions on the Internet. We planned our research as follows: - we study books, reference books, - we read stories about birds. -We observe the birds of our area; - draw conclusions.

Here's what we learned! Birds are the first and most reliable human helpers. Protectors of our forests, fields, orchards and vegetable gardens. We cannot do without birds, but birds also need our help. Hungry and cold winter it is necessary to feed the birds. Birds are animals too. They have wings, feathers, paws with claws and a beak ...

Birds have really different beaks.

Beaks are: 1. Short (in a sparrow, tit, bullfinch) 2. Medium (in a woodpecker, eagle, kite) 3. Long (in a toucan, pelican, crane, heron)

Smallest beak The smallest beak in a hummingbird. She lives where there are many flowers. Therefore, she needs a beak to collect nectar.

The largest beak The largest beak of a pelican. Pelicans live near water, and its beak resembles a fishing bag.

The most unusual beak The most unusual beak of a beautiful bird - a flamingo and a bird - a bite. In flamingos, it serves as a scoop for getting food. And the bush with its beak takes the seeds out of the cones.

The most durable beak The most durable beak of a woodpecker. He needs a beak to gouge trees and extract harmful bugs and larvae from under the bark. He even makes a hollow with his beak.

The beak is a tourist attraction The toucan has a very large beak, and the bird itself is no larger than a goose. But his beak is light and porous, like polystyrene and serves for beauty and greatness.

The beak is a needle In a dressmaker bird, the beak is a needle. This bird lives in India. When the time comes to hatch chicks, the dressmaker bird sews the edges of two leaves with its beak and threads. The needle is its thin beak, and it spins threads from plant fluff.

Beak - a weapon The parrot has a beak - the third leg, a formidable weapon. It can bite into steel wire with its beak.

Birds of our area In Siberia, there live tits, sparrows, magpies, crows, pigeons. Bullfinches arrive in winter. The bullfinch has a small beak, and it feeds on rowan berries.

Conclusions: 1. Birds live everywhere: in hot and cold places. Only birds have feathers and beaks. The bird's beak is not only the nose, but also the mouth. 2. Birds can feed on seeds, berries, nectar, insects, worms, fish. 3. The bird needs a beak in order to get food, build nests, defend, dig and even scare. And also the beak helps birds, like most animals, to navigate in a special world of smells. A bird without a nose - what are we without hands!

Thank you for the attention!

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