Bird Refuge, Part 2

As part of our field trip to the Salt Lake Nature Center, we went into their education room and learned about some of the birds that stop here as they migrate south for the winter. The wonderful teacher explained how the birds beaks are specially adapted to help them get the food they need/like as well as telling them other interesting facts about the birds. Then the kids got to pretend to be birds with different beaks. She spread a variety of types of "food" (plastic bugs, fish, plants, etc.) on the table and each child got a different type of beak to show that different beaks work better for some foods than others.







The education room also had quite a few birds stuffed so the kids could see them up closer.