Birds at SERC

Complete with sock ovaries and clay feather construction.

 

http://www.audubon.org/educate/kids/This is a neat website with some fun games for all ages, migration fun is hard but neat. They also have song matching etc..(I had a bit of hard time with the quick time player on the bird song game, but the rest were OK).

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/robin/index.html American Robin tracking project. This website also has tracking you can join in with humming birds, cranes, butterflies, worms, tulips, whales, eagles, and more. Very neat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y&feature=related This will amaze you! It is a clip of the amazing Lyre bird, he's a beautiful mimic of everything from cars to chain saws. I have actually witnessed local mocking birds mimicking car alarms and backing trucks.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1189 this is a great website for introductions to birds and birding. Cornell is a great resource.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/studying/feathers/  all about bird feathers and adaptations.

http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biodiversity/birds/aviantopics/feathersandPlumage.html the first part of this web page has great info on the structure of feathers.