1. Bird Feeder Frenzy Hajja Baize December 6, 2009 EDUC 373

4. How much food should I put in the feeder?

5. Do different type of birds need different types of food?

6. What types of birds fed on the feed?

7. Did anything else try to feed on the food?

8. What was the neatest bird to eat the food?

11. Seed mix attracts cardinals, jays, nuthatches, chickadees, flickers and white-crowned sparrows.

12. Birds like sunflower seeds best.

13. Beef fat called suet provides birds with a concentrated source of energy. Suet mixed with peanut butter is a favorite meal for woodpeckers, cardinals, goldfinches, jays, bluebirds.

14. Many birds like to eat the foods we do.

17. The smallest bird is the bee hummingbird.

18. The only backwards and sideways flyer is the hummingbird.

19. The peregrine falcon, clocked at 90 mph, is one of the fastest birds .

20. The spine-tailed swift, clocked at 90-100 mph, is the fastest.

21. Gentoo Penguins are the fastest swimming birds.

22. The highest flyer is Ruppell's griffon vulture. One collided with an airplane off the Ivory Coast in 1973.

24. Birds have a very strong heart and an efficient way of breathing.

25. Feathers are used for:

26. Flying- flight feathers grow in the wings and the tail.

27. Thermal insulation - soft down feathers that grow close to the skin keep birds from getting too cold or too hot.