Birds
of Wetlands Facts Table Activity
Bird species list: Wood Duck, Bald Eagle, Belted Kingfisher, Canada Goose, Double crested Cormorant, Red winged Blackbird, Pintail Duck, Great Blue Heron, Common Loon, Osprey, American Bittern, Ruddy Duck, Blue-Winged Teal
Use a table to develop a facts sheet about these birds.
Make a table in a word processing document. (Think ahead - how many rows and columns are needed?)
Enter eight (8) wetland bird species down the left side - one in each row.
Select bird species that can be found in your region/state.
Include your state bird as the 9th bird. (Include it even if it is not adapted to wetlands)
Label each column with a question/fact. Enter the answer to the question in the appropriate cell. Complete sentence answers are not necessary.
Questions:
Some birds stay in an area year round. Some nest in one region and have a different winter range.
Which birds winter in your area? Which nest in your area? Is it a year round resident?
Suggested column label: year round, breed, winter.
omnivore, carnivore, herbivore
Explain how you have come to these conclusions.
Wildlife Notes is a handy resource for this project.
Finished? - Travel further:
Wetlands Birds - Nesting and Rearing
Emergence - How does the "intelligence" of an ant colony or the stock market arise out of the simple actions of its members?
Do you see emergence in birds of the wetlands? Explain.
Wetlands: Habitat / Mammals / Birds / Macroinvertebrates - Aquatic insects / Plants & trees / Amphibians / Conclusions
Food Web Relationships / Ecology Vocabulary Exercise / Life Cycles / Competition Conundrum
Riparian Buffer Activity / Photos: page 1 - page 2 - page 3 / EcoCommunity Status in your state
Lentic or Lotic ecosystem? / Wetland Ecology Dilemmas
School Habitat Garden Project / Map and inventory local wetlands ( mid to advanced)
May be freely used in a educational setting.
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Save a tree - How to make a Digital Answer Sheet: Highlight the text of the questions on this web page, copy them - Edit .. Copy. Open a text document or word processing document. Paste the questions into the blank document. Answer the questions in the word processing document in a contrasting color (NOT YELLOW) or font (avoid fancy fonts like: 
, Symbol, 
or 
). Save frequently as you work. I do not like losing my work. You will not like it either. Submit your assignment via an electronic class dropbox or email attachment. Save a copy of your work on your computer.
Proof your responses. It is funny how speling errors and typeos sneak in to the bets work. 
Make Your Own Printed answer sheet.
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