The Science of Birds

Bird Bones: The Avian Skeleton


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This episode—which is Number 69—is all about the avian skeleton. Bird bones.

So this is an episode about some basic anatomy of birds.

Bird bones and the avian skeleton are elegant, strong, and rigid. 

Let’s put on our x-ray goggles, and peer inside the body of a bird, to see what’s going on with all those beautiful bones...


Links of Interest

  • Cranial kinesis in the skull of a Hyacinth Macaw [VIDEO]


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