Презентация "Australian animals"

AustraliaN animals

Performed: Kamalova Albina
Akhmadieva Diana

Some animals of Australia

EMU
The platypus
Cockatoo
Black Swan
KIWI

EMU

Large bird resembling the ostrich. Despite this EMU is still smaller than the African ostrich. Height 150-180 cm, weight - 35-55 lbs. the EMU has a flattened beak and the ear. On the body of EMU feathers long at the head and neck feathers are short and curly. The color of the plumage is black-brown; head and neck black, the upper part of the neck pale-grey, eye color orange-brown. Females are larger than males.EMUs live only in Australia and Tasmania. They feed on roots, seeds and fruits of plants, small animals (bugs, lizards etc.)

The platypus

At first glance it seems like he's assembled from parts belonging to different animals. The woolly head planted leathery beak like a duck. Limbs like reptiles, widely spaced on the sides, and floats like a beaver with a massive tail. He has small eyes. Found in Eastern Australia from Queensland to Tasmania. He catches food under water and store a supply of food, i.e. worms, snails, larvae and other worms like proteins in special bags, which are behind its cheeks

Cockatoo

These birds are very intelligent and talented to onomatopoeia. Different from any other parrots externally. The size of Kakadu medium and large on my head and have a mobile crest of elongated feathers, and the tail is short, straight or slightly rounded. The beak is quite massive and strong. Plumage black, white, yellow and pink. Females are smaller than males. Eat seeds of grasses, geraniums, capers, fruits and berries , nuts, roots, sprouts, herbaceous plants, flowers, buds, insects and their larvae.

Black Swan

The black Swan lives everywhere in Australia and Tasmania. Birds can weigh from 5 to 9 kg, height can reach six meters, wingspan-up to 2 metres, males usually larger than females. The main color of the plumage is black with moire sheen, the feathers on the edges of the wings slightly curls. During takeoff in the region of the wing seen white feathers. The longest neck among the swans, beak is bright red with a white ring at the end. Webbed feet black, iris of the eye is colored in shades of brown. He eats mainly aquatic plants and their rhizomes and plants growing on the banks of ponds, grasses, leaves and young shoots of shrubs and trees.

KIWI

This is a small (about the size of a normal village chicken) flightless bird. Tail, reminiscent of a thick wool. The head of the bird is small, and the weight 1.5 - 4 kg. Kiwi — not the bird of prey: its diet is insects, earthworms, and terrestrial mollusks, as well as the berries and fruits of local plants. Kiwi, not having good eyesight, have excellent sense of smell.

Thanks for watching!