Birds that eat insects.

Duration: 6 min

Year Published: 1953

Creator: International Film Bureau Inc.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: 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.

Complete Record: 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.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)

This film is not rare.

4 users have this film:
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Library of Congress, Prelinger Archives

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