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- Over 10,000 species
- Warm blooded
- Vertebrates
- Beak and no teeth
- Hard-shelled eggs
- Feathers
- Bipedal - walking or running on two appendages
Examples of birds are penguins, toucans, parrots, sparrows, robins, flamingos,ostriches, vultures, roadrunners, harpy eagles and macaws. 		             
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