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What is the respiratory organ of a bird?


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Birds:

  1. Birds are warm blooded vertebrates belonging to the class aves and group archosaurs.
  2. Characteristics of birds are that they have feathers, toothless back jaws, lay eggs, have wings and feathers.
  3. Birds have a pair of lungs for respiration.

Lungs in birds:

  1. Lungs have air sacs connected and supplement respiration.
  2. The air sacs are hollow bones that allow gases to flow around the body.
  3. The lungs of birds do not inflate or deflate.
  4. But the lungs maintain a constant volume.

Thus, the respiratory organ of a bird is a pair of lungs.


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