MUHAMMAD BILAL SHAHID

2019-AG-7042
BS ZOOLOGY, SECTION A (EVENING)
ZOOL407
DR. NAUREEN RANA
PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT
 Eskimo Curlew

Scientific classification:
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Numenius
Species: N. borealis

Physical Appearance:
o The Eskimo Curlew is a medium-sized, brownish shorebird about 32 to 37
centimetres in length with a long, slender and slightly down-curved bill.
o Typical of other curlew species, the upper parts have sooty black to greyish-brown
feathers, with margins and spots of brown buff.

Habitat:
o Eskimo Curlews nest in arctic and subarctic tundra in the Northwest Territories.
o This is a largely treeless area with dwarf shrubs and grassy tundra vegetation, as
well as grassy meadows and shoreline habitat.

Breeding:
o The Eskimo Curlew is a monogamous, long-lived shorebird.
o It has delayed maturation and a relatively low reproductive rate.
o Following spring migration in April and May, it arrives on its arctic breeding areas
in late May and early June.

Diet:
o They ate mostly berries insects etc

Conservation Status:
o The Eskimo Curlew is a Critically Endangered species on the IUCN Red List
 Swift
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Genus: Apus
Species: A.apus

Physical Appearance:
The characteristics of the swift in the photograph included

 a relatively large, slim, dark body, with a long deeply forked tail;
 upper and underwing-coverts apparently darker than the primaries and secondaries;
 very long, sharply pointed, scythe-like wings; and
 a faint white chinpatchh

Habitat:
 Common swifts nest in a wider variety of sites than any other species of Apus.
 Swifts usually nest in buildings but they can also be found nesting in holes in trees,
cliffs and crevices, and even in nestboxes.

Diet:
 The diet consisted of insects from 6 orders and 22 families and of three spiders.
 Hymenoptera, particularly fig wasps and their parasitoids, made up 71.32% of 750
prey items.
 Flies (Diptera) and aphids (Homoptera) were important prey items as well.

Breeding:
 The majority of the breeding habitat of A. apus is located in temperate zones
 Common swifts have been observed breeding from sea level to several thousand
meters in elevation.
 Apus apus prefers areas with trees, or buildings with open spaces, and is able to use
vertical surfaces such as rock walls and chimneys for nesting due to a unique
physical adaptation possessed by all swifts

Conservation Status:
 Non extinct birds
 Yellow Bunting
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae
Genus: Emberiza
Species: E. sulphurata

Physical Appearance:
 It is 14 cm long and has a conical, grey bill, pinkish-brown feet and brown eyes.
 The male is grey-green above with black streaks on the back.
 The underparts are yellow-green (brightest on the throat and belly) with streaks on
the flanks.

Habitat:
 The yellow-breasted bunting breeds in open scrubby areas that consist of dry water
rice fields for foraging and reedbeds for roosting, often near water, and is present in
Siberia. It lays four to six eggs in a nest on the ground.

Diet:
 Its food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds.

Breeding:
 The yellow-breasted bunting breeds in open scrubby areas that consist of dry water
rice fields for foraging and reedbeds for roosting, often near water, and is present in
Siberia.
 It lays four to six eggs in a nest on the ground. Its food consists of insects when
feeding young, and otherwise seeds.

Conservation Status:
 The species is now considered to be critically endangered.
 Green Finch
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Chloris
Species: C. chloris

Physical Appearance:
 The European greenfinch (Chloris chloris) is a small bird about 15 centimeters long.
 It gets its name from the greenish color of its characteristic plumage.
 Males are particularly striking as they have a strong green color in their plumage
and yellow spots on their wings and tails.

Habitat:
 The Greenfinch lives in gardens, wooded countryside, parks and orchards.

Diet:
 The Greenfinch diet consists of seeds, buds and berries.
 They visit bird tables for seed and are, according to various recent reports,
increasingly willing to perch on and feed from hanging feeders.
 They will take peanuts, black sunflower seeds and sunflower hearts from a variety
of feeders in the garden.

Breeding:
 Breed green singer finches when they reach 12 months old.
 Breeding season begins in March and can run through October.
 The birds will breed at any time during these months. Place the breeding pair together
in a cage.

Conservation:
 Non extinct birds
 Pond Herron
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Ardeidae
Genus: Ardeola
Species: Grayii

Physical Appearance:
 They appear stocky with a short neck, short thick bill and buff-brown back.
 In summer, adults have long neck feathers. Its appearance is transformed from their
dull colours when they take to flight, when the white of the wings makes them very
prominent.

Habitat:
The Indian pond heron’s feeding habitat is marshy wetlands.
 They usually feed at the edge of ponds but make extensive use of floating vegetation such
as water hyacinth to access deeper water.
 They may also on occasion swim on water or fish from the air and land in deeper waters.

Diet:
 The primary food of these birds includes crustaceans, aquatic insects, fishes,
tadpoles and sometimes leeches (Herpobdelloides sp.).
 Outside wetlands, these herons feed on insects (including crickets, dragonflies and
bees), fish (Barilius noted as important in a study in Chandigarh) and amphibians.

Breeding:
 During the breeding season, there are records of individuals with red legs.
 The numbers do not suggest that this is a normal change for adults during the
breeding season and some have suggested the possibility of it being genetic variants

Conservation Status:
 Not globally threatened