I Thought I Saw a Tweety Bird
Research Activity
This is the final academic activity before we paint the bird houses to test what the students have learned. The Students will have 1 night or a weekend (whatever you think your students are capable of) to perform this task.
I have provided you with a list and if you are doing the program with us I will assign the students each a type of bird that they are to research in the letters they are to recieve. If you aren't doing this with us please just assign a bird to each student.
Common Loon
Pied-Billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-Necked Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-Crested Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Blue heron
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-Winged Teal
Nortehrn Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Ospery
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Pergrine Falcon
Gray Partridge
Ruffled Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Sharp-Tailed Grouse
Sora
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Whooping Crane
Black-Bellied Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
American Avocet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-Billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Common Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
Common Tern
Black Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Black-Billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Burrowing Owl
Short-Eared Owl
Common Nighthawk
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Three-Toed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Leat Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Red-eyed Vireo
Gray Jay
Blue Jay
Black-Billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purpel Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Mountain Bluebird
Swainson's Throush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Sprague's Oipit
Bohemian Waxwing
Tennesses Warbler
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Ralm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-Coloured Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-Throated Sparrow
Dark-Eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Red-Winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Grosbeak
Purpel Finch
White-Winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow
The Students are expected to find:
Breeding/Eggs
- How big is the bird's nest
- On average how many eggs are laid
- How big are the eggs
- What do the eggs look like (what colour, is there speckles, just basically describe the eggs)
General
- What does their diet consist of?
- What climate(s) do they tolerate?
- Where do they migrate to (if they do migrate)?
- Description of markings and what they look like
- (A Must Have) the Scientific Name and what family of birds they come from
- Will they actually use a bird house?
Please get the students to print off their information with their names on the document and my sister Kaelyn or I myself will come and pick them up. I will then as soon as possible get the pamphlets finished and printed off so your class can have them. I will make 1 copy for each of the students who got the research and then 1 to have in the classroom.
After the information has been gathered the findings of each student will be presented to the class in the fashion of a pamphlet. The pamphlet will then be made available for the others students to read in the class.
