Birds that eat insects.
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Classifies birds that eat insects by their body weight and structure. Using the swallow as an example, the film shows lightweight birds with long wings that are adapted to catch flying insects. Portrays the breasted nuthatch, flicker, and red-headed woodpecker as short-legged birds with long, slender bills that eat insects from trunks of trees. Emphasizes through animation, the differences in bill and mouth structure between the two groups.
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Explains how the physical structure of birds is adapted to the kind of food they eat, and points out characteristics of birds that eat insects. Draws attention to the strong wings and wide bills of birds that chase insects in the air; the small size and agility of birds that hunt in bushes; and the strong chisel-shaped bill of woodpeckers. Shows the swallow, nighthawk, kingbird, chestnut-sided warbler, black-billed cuckoo.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound
- Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education) — title, creator, length, color, description
- 16mm Filmography editors — catalog record
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