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Large Ground Finch Research Paper

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The large ground finch lives in the Arid Zone of most of the archipelago, in which its environment consist of plant communities characterized by the presence of cacti and deciduous trees and are home to other landbirds, seabirds, blue-footed boobies, and land iguanas. The Large ground finch has a class of Ave. Its family is thraupidae in which are known for representing about 4% of all avian species and 12% of the Neotropical birds. The thraupidae family is best known as the second largest family of birds. Large ground finches can be proven that there has been evolution between this animal in which Charles Robert Darwin has gave some evidence and also fossil evidence can show changes from body structures by comparing with its common ancestor. Lastly the finch can be proven that …show more content…

When Darwin went on the HMS beagle he had went all around the world gathering species to study. When he had got to the Galapagos island he had discovered the finches and as he researched them he found that this species has changed over a long period of time. Darwin had found that the finches were related to each other in the structure of their beaks, short tails, form of body and plumage. The common ancestor of the Large Ground finch was the Blue-Black grassquit. All the galapagos finches have evolved from this bird. From how these finches evolved, the ground finches had started off with the sharp billed ground finches, and later evolved into a small ground finch and then a medium ground finch and lastly a large ground finch. If you observe these four birds their beaks change from small beaks to thick beaks. This proves that over the course of time this type of bird had changed significantly to adapt to their environment. This also applies to the other types of finches. Lastly these birds have evolved to fit to their environment because Natural selection and

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