Context Clues - Amplify Bird Chapters

Birds, like all living things, are highly adaptive, meaning they can survive in many different habitats. What does the word adaptive mean?

• able to move

• able to fly

• able to change

• able to walk

Bird feathers come in all kinds of colors and sizes. A bird’s feathers are also called plumage. Peacocks have the fanciest plumage of all. What does the word plumage mean?

• wings

• feathers

• beaks

• eyes

Some birds travel long distances, migrating to warmer homes in winter, whereas others are homebodies, never straying very far from where they were born.

• leaves home often

• travels long distances

• born far away

• likes to stay at home

The largest bird on Earth, the ostrich, is actually a flightless bird. With a seven-foot wingspan, it seems odd that ostriches can’t fly.

• unable to fly

• unable to run

• able to fly

• able to run

Because their feathers take quite a beating, birds take good care of them, and often preen them with their beaks to keep them clean and in the right position.

• damage

• clean and arrange with beak

• rub up and down

• fluff out

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