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    Pigeons are a widely distributed family of birds with stout bodies, short legs, and smooth plumage. They include domesticated rock doves and feral pigeons found in cities worldwide. Pigeons have feathers that insulate their body and beaks with a tough keratin layer that grows continuously. Their tongues help collect, manipulate, and swallow food. Their skeleton is adapted for flight, with hollow bones containing air sacs to reduce weight and fused bones for sturdiness. Key flight-related bones include the furcula, sternum, and pygostyle. Their digestive system starts with a crop for food storage and moistening, then a gizzard with swallowed pebbles that help crush food, before

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    Pigeons are a widely distributed family of birds with stout bodies, short legs, and smooth plumage. They include domesticated rock doves and feral pigeons found in cities worldwide. Pigeons have feathers that insulate their body and beaks with a tough keratin layer that grows continuously. Their tongues help collect, manipulate, and swallow food. Their skeleton is adapted for flight, with hollow bones containing air sacs to reduce weight and fused bones for sturdiness. Key flight-related bones include the furcula, sternum, and pygostyle. Their digestive system starts with a crop for food storage and moistening, then a gizzard with swallowed pebbles that help crush food, before

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    Pigeons are a widely distributed family of birds with stout bodies, short legs, and smooth plumage. They include domesticated rock doves and feral pigeons found in cities worldwide. Pigeons have feathers that insulate their body and beaks with a tough keratin layer that grows continuously. Their tongues help collect, manipulate, and swallow food. Their skeleton is adapted for flight, with hollow bones containing air sacs to reduce weight and fused bones for sturdiness. Key flight-related bones include the furcula, sternum, and pygostyle. Their digestive system starts with a crop for food storage and moistening, then a gizzard with swallowed pebbles that help crush food, before

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    Pigeon

    Pigeon , any of a widely distributed family


    (Columbidae, order Columbiformes) of birds
    with a stout body, rather short legs, and smooth
    and compact plumage; especially :  a member
    of any of numerous varieties of the rock dove
    that exist in domestication and in the feral state
    in cities and towns throughout most of the
    world
     
    FEATHERS
    BEAKS
    It consists of an upper and lower
    mandible and is covered with tough,
    horny keratin layer that grows
    . continuously
    Tongue

     Has 3 primary roles


     – Collecting food
     – Manipulating food
     – Swallowing

    SKELETAL

    Bones = hollow/air sacs extend into bones to make them LESS DENSE
    fused to make them STURDY

    FURCULA – stabilizes shoulders during flight

    STERNUM- attaches flight muscles

    PYGOSTYLE- support for tail


    STOMACH
    Crop: Storage for food; where it’s moistened

    Gizzard: Helps kneed or crust the food (eat pebbles to help crush
    food)

    Proventriculus: First part of stomach; a gastric gland, add enzymes,


    where digestion starts

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