I need to match a beak and a foot type to each bird...please help
BEAKS
a) cracking type- eat small seeds
b) spear shape- spearing fish
c) chisel shape- drillling for insects
d) hooked- catch prey
e)
Some of these beak matches can be quite easily done...if you bothered to THINK about it...come on...this is not that hard..some of these can be answered with common sense!! You can easily look these up if you can't come come up with answers. I think
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