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Beak Adaptations

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Bird Adaptations - Feet

If you want to learn more about birds, you may want to pay attentions to feet shapes! You can use it as one of the characeristics you use to identify birds. If you have already identified a bird, you can learn more about its behavior by looking at the feet and thinking about where it lives. To help you get started, here are some common feet shapes and the environment they are especially adapted to live in:

SHAPE	TYPE	ADAPTATION
	Grasping	Raptors like Osprey use their large curved claws to snatch fish from the water.
	Scratching	Pheasants and other birds that scratch the soil for food have nail-like toes.
	Swimming	Ducks and other webbed lined swimming birds use their feet like paddles.
	Perching	Robins have a long back toe, which lets them grab a perch tightly.
	Running	Many fast-running birds have three toes rather than four.
	Climbing	A woodpecker's hind toes enable it to climb without falling backward.