Hot Birds Have Large...Beaks

Eddie W. -- Recently, scientists reasearched Salt Marsh Sparrows and found out that their beaks help them stay cool. The head of the National Zoo’s Migratory Bird Center learned about these birds for more than ten years and found out how they live through wet areas by the ocean. He found out that the birds that ate and lived in places like other birds than they were different birds. ’’Rather than focusing on their similarities, I started focusing on their differences,’’ ( Russel Greenberg). This quote is evidence that the birds needed to be different in order to be the same bird type. If birds shared an Ecosystem, how large their beaks were was a huge difference. A Salt Marsh Sparrow is strong because it lives someplace where the tree’s leaves keep them cool by giving them shade, they get food that they eat, and salty water. ’’Greenberg and his fellow researchers took their cues from previous studies that showed the famously-beaked toucan has an active vascular system, or blood flow, to its bill that change as regularly as, well, the weather,”( Amy Enchelmyer) . This quote is evidence that the bird has something inside it that controls its adaptations. Birds cool off differently than people sweat to cool their bodies, they get in the shade to cool off. The scientist Russel Greenberg thinks if the beak is bigger, they can stay cooler so they don’t get dehydrated.

                This article really was interesting to me because it was about birds and how they maintained Homeostasis. I didn’t know that they cooled off differently than people. This article was very helpful to me because it showed how Salt Marsh Sparrows control how hot they would get. I agree with the Article because it has quotes from a scientist and involves his studies in the Article. The Article had Scientific words in it relating to Biology. When there are quotes it says who the quote is by. There are deatails that readers would need to know in the Article.


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