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(6) Probe, pulling from soft mud 



Woodcock 

 Yellowlegs 



b Seeds 



Cracking seeds 



House sparrow 

 Evening grosbeak 

 Junco 



c Fish 



(1) Spearing 



Belted kingfisher 

 Common tern 

 Heron 



Nu Wo6 

 Nu Yd 



Nu SpI6 

 Nu GtE7 

 Nu JuS 



Nu KiB7 

 Nu TfD2 

 Nu HeF8 



(2) Scooping 



Brown Pelican, Bill and Pouch. Pelican 



island, Florida (1898) Chapman Nu PfB9 



Brown pelican, habitat group Nu PfBl 



(3) Tearing carrion or large fish caught by the feet 



Gulls Nu GvHS 



Gulls Nu GvHl 



Osprey Nu Os 



d Flesh of birds or rodents 



Hook — always caught by feet and then torn to pieces by bill 



Bald eagle Nu EBS7 



Sparrow hawk Nu HT 



3 The wing, uses and adaptations 



a Flight 



(1) Sudden burst of speed, short and rounded, stiff 



Canada grouse Nu GuC 



(2) Long-continued sailing, long and narrow 



Herring gull 

 Marsh hawk 



(3) Soaring, long and broad 



Turkey vulture 

 Bald eagle 



Nu GvH7 

 Nu HM7 



Nu VuT8 

 Nu EB 



