[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":139},["ShallowReactive",2],{"encyclopedia_en:\u002Fentsiklopediya\u002Fgde-obitayut-ptitsy":3,"alt-locale:encyclopedia_en:\u002Fentsiklopediya\u002Fgde-obitayut-ptitsy":98,"section-listing:disabled":99,"section-listing:encyclopedia_en:\u002Fentsiklopediya":100,"related-covers:en:\u002Fatlas|\u002Fslovar\u002Fareal-obitaniya|\u002Fslovar\u002Fendemik":132},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"coverImage":61,"description":62,"extension":63,"faq":64,"imagePrompt":71,"meta":72,"navigation":73,"order":74,"pageType":75,"path":76,"publishedAt":77,"readingMinutes":78,"relatedLinks":79,"seo":92,"sitemap":95,"stem":96,"tags":74,"updatedAt":74,"__hash__":97},"encyclopedia_en\u002Fentsiklopediya\u002Fgde-obitayut-ptitsy.md","Where Do Birds Live",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":54},"minimark",[9,14,18,21,25,34,37,41],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"birds-occupy-nearly-every-habitat-on-earth","Birds occupy nearly every habitat on Earth",[15,16,17],"p",{},"Few animal groups match birds for sheer breadth of habitat occupied. Birds breed in tropical rainforest, temperate forest and farmland, open grassland and steppe, desert, high mountains, freshwater wetlands, coastlines, and open ocean far from any land — and, in the case of several penguin species and a handful of seabirds, on the Antarctic continent itself, making birds one of the very few vertebrate groups with an established presence on every continent on Earth.",[15,19,20],{},"This breadth is possible because different bird lineages have evolved highly specialized adaptations for radically different environments: waterproof, densely packed feathers and efficient body heat retention for polar seabirds and penguins; the ability to extract water from food alone for many desert species; and, for high-altitude specialists, physiological adaptations to breathe efficiently in thin mountain air. 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A species can have a vast geographic range while still being absent from most of the landscape within it, simply because it depends on a specific habitat, such as reedbed or old-growth forest, that doesn't cover the entire range uniformly. Species restricted to one small area entirely, found nowhere else, are called ",[29,50,52],{"href":51},"\u002Fen\u002Fslovar\u002Fendemik","endemics"," — a special case at the far end of the same range-and-habitat relationship that shapes where every bird species is actually found.",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":57},"",2,[58,59,60],{"id":12,"depth":56,"text":13},{"id":23,"depth":56,"text":24},{"id":39,"depth":56,"text":40},"\u002Fimages\u002Fentsiklopediya\u002Fgde-obitayut-ptitsy.png","Birds occupy virtually every habitat on Earth, from tropical rainforest to open ocean to Antarctic ice — with distribution shaped far more by climate and food than by any single continent.","md",[65,68],{"q":66,"a":67},"Do any birds live in Antarctica?","Yes — several penguin species, along with a small number of seabirds like petrels and skuas, breed on the Antarctic continent and its surrounding islands, making birds one of the very few vertebrate groups with a permanent presence on every continent on Earth, including the coldest and most inhospitable one.",{"q":69,"a":70},"Why do some habitats have far more bird species than others?","Food availability, structural complexity, and stability of climate all play a role. 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