All of us know since childhood that easily and it is just possible to measure length of a boa in parrots. And even we remember that one well all the familiar boa has length of 38 parrots. And how to measure the parrot?
It is required to you
- ordinary centimetric ruler or tape
Instruction
1. By means of measurements together with the general survey make assessment of any caught wild bird for specification mainly of gender and age feathery. Happens that the sizes of any given parts of a body help to define more precisely specific accessory, than the general appearance of a copy.
2. Domestic decorative birds, including parrots, surely measure at exhibitions and also when carrying out selection work. In modern ornithology six main types of measurement of a bird are taken. For carrying out measurements take a parrot on hands. Your assistant let will arm with a centimetric ruler, a tape and compasses.
3. First, measure body length with the head. Put a parrot horizontally on a back and put a ruler. Measure from a beak tip to an anus. The measurement to a tip of a tail will characterize the total length of a body.
4. The second measurement – length covered. Turn a lying parrot a little on one side. Press a ruler to the put wing and measure distance from a hand bend to a tip of the longest swing feather.
5. The third measurement – tail length. Lay a bird on a paunch and carefully straighten or if a parrot small, inflate to a nadhvostya. The place of entry into skin of tail feathers has to be bared. Measure from this point until the end of the longest steering feathers.
6. Beak length. You hold a parrot in hand. Measure in a straight line from a beak tip to a forehead where plumage on a crest begins. It is also possible to measure from a tip to nostrils. Specify option in records.
7. The next stage measures tsevka length. Carefully grope articulate hollows between a shin on a paw of a bird and phalanxes of fingers. Measure this piece and write down result.
8. At last determine by the sixth measurement wingspan at a parrot. For this purpose part wings in the parties as it is possible more widely and measure distance between extreme points of wings. This measurement is usually taken for birds, large and average in size.