BirdsBirds

LME 448: Technology LME 448: Technology Applications In EducationApplications In Education

Birds Near YouBirds Near You

What are Birds?What are Birds? How Birds FlyHow Birds Fly Other Types of BirdsOther Types of Birds How to Feed HummingbirdsHow to Feed Hummingbirds

What Are Birds?What Are Birds?

Warm-blooded Warm-blooded animalsanimals

Have wings, Have wings, feathers and a beakfeathers and a beak

Strong hollow bones Strong hollow bones and powerful flight and powerful flight musclesmuscles

OrnithologyOrnithology

How Birds FlyHow Birds Fly

Lift—like an Lift—like an airplane’s wingairplane’s wing

Practice—a Practice—a baby bird baby bird cannot fly cannot fly without without practicing firstpracticing first

Four Ways to FlyFour Ways to Fly

GlidingGliding HoveringHovering SoaringSoaring FlappingFlapping

Turkey VultureTurkey VultureCathartes auraCathartes aura

Buzzard or Buzzard or Turkey BuzzardTurkey Buzzard

6 Foot Wing 6 Foot Wing SpanSpan

Open CountryOpen Country Feed on Large Feed on Large

AnimalsAnimals Nest Under Nest Under

Ground CoverGround Cover

Bald EagleBald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusHaliaeetus leucocephalus

American EagleAmerican Eagle Symbolizes many thingsSymbolizes many things 6.5-6.8 foot wing span6.5-6.8 foot wing span Nests around waterNests around water Feed on fishFeed on fish Nests weighing up to one ton!Nests weighing up to one ton! Endangered SpeciesEndangered Species

Pictures of the Bald EaglePictures of the Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusHaliaeetus leucocephalus

Snowy OwlSnowy OwlNyctea scandiacaNyctea scandiaca

Large, white Large, white feathers, yellow feathers, yellow eyes, black beakeyes, black beak

Open spaces—Open spaces—tundra, grassland, tundra, grassland, frozen waterfrozen water

Eats mostly small Eats mostly small rodents and rodents and lemminglemming

Number of eggs Number of eggs laid depends on laid depends on amount of food that amount of food that is gatheredis gathered

HummingbirdsHummingbirds

Fastest recorded wing speed is Fastest recorded wing speed is 80 beats per second!80 beats per second!

Heart rates—from 50 to 1260 Heart rates—from 50 to 1260 beats per minutebeats per minute

Males leave before females for Males leave before females for migrationmigration

How to FeedHow to FeedHummingbirdsHummingbirds

Obtain a feeder Obtain a feeder that is easy to that is easy to cleanclean

Make the Make the hummingbird hummingbird foodfood

Maintain your Maintain your feederfeeder

ReferencesReferences

All About BirdsAll About Birds. (2003). Retrieved September 19, 2005 from . (2003). Retrieved September 19, 2005 from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/Allaboutbirds/Attracthttp://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/Allaboutbirds/AttractingBirds/FeedingBirds/ingBirds/FeedingBirds/

All About BirdsAll About Birds. (2005). Retrieved September 18, 2005 from . (2005). Retrieved September 18, 2005 from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/Allabouthttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/Allaboutbirds.htmlbirds.html

Birds of PreyBirds of Prey. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2005 from . (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2005 from http://www.tulsawalk.com/birding/http://www.tulsawalk.com/birding/

Hogan, Thomas. Hogan, Thomas. About HummingbirdsAbout Hummingbirds. (2005). Retrieved on . (2005). Retrieved on September 21, 2005 from September 21, 2005 from http://www.hummingbirds.net/about.htmlhttp://www.hummingbirds.net/about.html

OstrichOstrich. (2004). Retrieved September 19, 2005 from . (2004). Retrieved September 19, 2005 from http://www.abc-kid.com/ostrich/http://www.abc-kid.com/ostrich/

What is a Bird?What is a Bird?. (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2005 from . (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2005 from http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/birdshttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/birds