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The Bow Valley Bird Bonanza!Every student at Elizabeth Rummel School
is challenged to identify at least five different bird species between May 26 and
3 June!
Check out our website for other resources to help you learn about birds… And read
on for a game to help you learn about these birds!
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Here’s how this game works:
The next pages list birds that you might see around where you live…
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Name that bird!
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Black-capped chickadee
Mésange a tête noir
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Was that easy?This next birds colour is in its
name…
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Blue Jay
Geai Bleu
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How about this one?
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Rufous hummingbird
Colibri roux
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Hint: this bird
‘swallows’ lots of
mosquitos…
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Tree swallow
Hirondelle bicolore
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• Perhaps this is a little harder. Have you ever had one of these wake you up in the morning?
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Black-billed magpie
Pie bavarde
Come to the school library to see some huge pictures of these birds!
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Next, lets take a look at some birds you might see in the
schoolyard - if you remember to keep your eyes to the sky!This first bird is so hardy, it
can live here all winter long..
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That thick bill! Those rough neck feathers! It must be a…
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Common raven
Grand corbeau
… the next bird isn’t exactly a ‘Sea’ gull. Check out its bill!
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Ring-billed gullGoéland à bec cerclé
Next bird is smaller than a raven, and just says
‘Caw…’
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Crow
Corneille d’Amérique
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Imagine you were walking down by the Bow River. What
do you think you would see first?
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The name of this bird includes the colour of its eye. Can you tell which one is the female (hint:
females have to hide from predators when they sit on
nests).
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Common goldeneye duck
Garrot à oeil d’or
the female duck is more camoflaged, isn’t it?
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This next bird lives here all winter long, and dips its body up and down to help see how
far away things are!
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American dipperCincle d’Amérique
You can sometimes see this next bird in
Canmore’s hockey rink…
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Bald Eagle (aka ‘Eddie’)Pygargue à tête blanche
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This next bird is a GOOSE. And it lives in CANADA.
(Hope you don’t need another hint…)
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Canada gooseBernache du Canada
(their babies look a bit like tennis balls, don’t you
think?)
Next bird is harder…
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Spotted sandpiperChevalier branlequeu
Next bird is a cool hawk that likes to eat fish, and
builds big nests…
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OspreyBalbuzard
Policemans Creek is a good place to go bird-watching. To
get there you have to walk right past the ‘Drake’ Inn…
(hint, hint!)
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Mallard duckCanard colvert
The drake is the male duck - it is more brightly coloured…
This next bird flits about tree branches and eats the insects it
finds there. Its song is a ‘warble…’
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Yellow-rumped warblerParuline à croupion jaune
Next up: a bird that lays its eggs in other birds
nests. The baby birds are raised by someone else!
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Brown-headed cowbirdVacher à tête brun
Imagine, now, that you are walking in the forest…
hey, what is that tapping sound?
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Hairy woodpecker
Pic chevelu
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If you put sunflower seeds in your birdfeeder (just during
the winter, please!), you’ll see lots of this next bird…
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Red-breasted nuthatch
Sittelle à poitrine rousse
Next: a sparrow that might sing in your backyard. The song sounds something like ‘Camptown racetrack five
miles long…’
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White-crowned sparrowBruant à couronne
blanche
(by the way, sparrows can crack open seeds. Go
back and check out this bird’s strong bill!)
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Here’s a neat bird that you can see on the Rundle Forbay or on any large lake. Its call
makes it sound like a lunatic!
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Common Loon Huart â collier
When loon babies are young, they can get very
tired and cold. That is why they sometimes get a piggyback from the Mum
or Dad!
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This next bird can fly silently, and see its prey on even the
darkest night. It is one of nature’s best hunters…
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Great Horned Owl Grand Duc d’Amérique
(those horns are actually
feathers - can you tell?)
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Last but not least: thousands of these birds fly over
Canmore’s mountains every year during migration. They are so cool, we even have a festival to celebrate them!
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Golden eagleAigle royal
If you want to see those golden neck feathers up close - check out the eagle that we might have in the school library.
Happy Birding!