Showing posts with label Birds of Prey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birds of Prey. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Sets.

I should have probably done this post a while ago but no matter.
Kings Play Chess On Fine Glass Sets.
What in the world?
Well the first letters in each of those words stand for an other word. The words: Kingdom,
Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.
Each of these different words has a different purpose and if you wont to be a zoo keeper of a scientist or any other job that you need to know about animals this is the first thing you need to learn
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species.
Well we are doing birds right now so naturally so let's just pick a bird like the Black Necked Swan. They would be in the Kingdom Animaliea . That is quite a mouthful.
Next it would go in to the Phylum Chordata witch basically means "with a backbone". So birds have a back bone.

Next, Class Aves . Don't ask me what it means I haven't found that out, but I will tell you as soon as I do. But I think that it might be the Latin word for bird.
ODER. This divides up song birds, birds of prey, birds of the water and so on. And because we are doing The Black Necked Swan that would go into the Order of Water Birds.
Family. The B. N. Swan would be in the family of Swans. This is cutting the field down quite a bit.

Genus. That divides the Black Necked Swan from the Trumpeter Swan.
Then last, Spices. And that is wear the Black Necked Swan belongs.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Peregrine Falcon !!!

The Peregrine Falcon is a sandy brown with black wings and markings, and a touch of yellow. It's a big bird even for a bird of prey and is 15 to 21 inches.
The Peregrine Falcon doesn't really ever talk in it's ruff cackling voice. Only when it's in it's nest. Other wise it prefers to go quietly along on it's silent wings.
The Peregrine lives in open places beside streams lakes and rivers.
It lives a lot on the coast line of America from Virgina to Texas. An then from all over Alaska down along the coast of Canada down to California. It all so makes a line from Montana down to New Mexico.

Peregrine Falcons are known for making good hunting pets. Not so much anymore but they where used a lot by knights when they would go hunting .
Once in 1595 the king of England lost his beloved Peregrine Falcon. Because it was the king's everyone was looking for it.
But because his Falcon was tagged (he tagged all his favorite birds) his Peregrine falcon was finally found 1,300 miles away in a little island called Malta.