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.

More about Birds

After our wonderful visit to the Salt Lake Nature Center to see birds, we returned and did some fun projects about birds. We wrote about what we saw and learned and painted pictures of the birds. I also stole this idea from a good friend, Aly, and had the students make pages that show the different parts of a bird and we talked about how birds have different adaptations to help them survive and find food.

Basically the kids used various art supplies to show their beaks, their nests, their eggs, and their feathers.

Farmington Bay Nature Center

We took our field trip today to the Farmington Bay Nature Center to see the birds and learn about their adaptations. It was such a neat field trip! The kids (and I!) loved it. Although it was definitely warm outside. But we got to see many birds and learn so many great things.... this is the first post of 2 or 3 to talk about the field trip. Some of the birds we saw include cormorants, yellow winged blackbirds, grebes, several types of ducks, Canada goose, pelican, great blue heron, California gull and possibly swans. Here are some photos of the nature walk part of the field trip: