Avian terminology

Question 1

Order of perching birds including canaries, finches, and sparrows

Answer 1

Passeriformes

Question 2

Order of birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans

Answer 2

Anseriformes

Question 3

Common name used for birds such as parrots, macaws, cockatoos, conures, lovebirds, parakeets, cockatiels, and budgies.

Answer 3

Psittacine

Question 4

Order of birds with short beaks, short legs, small heads, and stout bodies. Examples include pigeons and doves

Answer 4

Columbiformes

Question 5

Group of running birds with a flat, raft‐like sternum and strong muscular legs. These are flightless birds due to their lack of a keel bone. Examples include the ostrich, emu, rhea, and kiwi.

Answer 5

Ratite

Question 6

Farmed, domesticated birds such as fowl, turkey, ducks, and geese

Answer 6

Poultry

Question 7

Intact female ratite.

Answer 7

Hen

Question 8

Young ratite.

Answer 8

Chick

Question 9

Young ratite.

Answer 9

Chick

Question 10

Intact male turkey

Answer 10

Tom

Question 11

Young psittacine.

Answer 11

Chick

Question 12

Intact female turkey.

Answer 12

Hen

Question 13

Intact female goose.

Answer 13

Goose

Question 14

Intact male duck

Answer 14

drake

Question 15

young female chicken

Answer 15

pullet

Question 16

Commercial fowl that is laying eggs.

Answer 16

layer

Question 17

Castrated male fowl.

Answer 17

capon

Question 18

Group of young birds produced from one hatching.

Answer 18

Brood

Question 19

Group of eggs.

Answer 19

clutch

Question 20

Intact male ratite.

Answer 20

rooster

Question 21

Young turkey.

Answer 21

poult

Question 22

Intact male psittacine.

Answer 22

cock

Question 23

Intact male goose

Answer 23

gander

Question 24

Young male chicken.

Answer 24

cockeral

Question 25

Group of young birds produced from one hatching.

Answer 25

brood