Test: Flying High - 1 - Class 3 MCQ

Beak helps a bird to eat their food and claw helps to catch the prey.

Ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis can't fly. Unlike most birds, their flat breastbones lack the keel that anchors the strong pectoral muscles required for flight. Their puny wings can't possibly lift their heavy bodies off the ground.

Penguins are birds, so they do have wings. However, the wing structures of penguins are evolved for swimming, rather than flying in the traditional sense.

Peacocks are able to take to the skies and flap their wings, the bountiful tails flowing behind them.

For many people around the world, birds are among the most fascinating fellow animals on Earth.

Ornithology, the scientific study on birds, is one of the oldest organized scientific disciplines.