North American Birds of Fields, Fencerows and Meadows

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) meadow 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.

Label each column with a question/fact.
Enter the answer to the question in the appropriate cell. Complete sentence answers are not necessary.

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.

Birds nest in different places. They use many different materials to make their nests.

Describe the materials and location of each bird's nest.
Example: Puffin - seaweed/oceanside burrow

Precocial or Altricial

For each species: Do the male and female birds look the same or different?

What kind of bill or beak does the bird have?

What does this bird eat? seeds, flowers/leaves, insects, reptiles, birds, mammals (Diet)

Is the species nocturnal, diurnal or crepuscular?

Is the bird a predator or prey or both?

How does this bird depend on or need the field or meadow habitat?

 

Form some conclusions based on your data on these birds.

Explain how you have come to these conclusions.

 

Mystery Bird Challenge - ID that bird

Emergence - How does the "intelligence" of an ant colony or the stock market arise out of the simple actions of its members?

1 Science NetLinks Benchmark 1- Nature of science - How science works

Save a tree - use a digital answer format - Highlight the text of the title, directions and questions. Copy the text. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the word processing document in an easily read, contrasting color or font. (No yellow, avoid artistic fonts like: Symbols, , , & fonts). Save frequently as you work. Be sure to enter your name and the date in a document header. Make Your Own Printed answer sheet

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