Dare to discover more about the Willet when you explore this site. The content of this resource looks at characteristics, life cycle, diet, habitat, behavior and range of this aquatic bird.

Learn more about the Wood Stork through this educational source. Students will discover more about this wading bird's characteristics, life cycle, behavior, diet and more.

Come and check out this educational resource featuring the Yellow-crowned Night Heron. This site identifies the characteristics, life cycle, diet, habitat, range, behavior and photographs of this aquatic bird.

Learn about birds the only way you can. A bird is a warm-blooded, egg-laying, winged vertebrate that has a body covered with feathers. Find out all about all of the different birds you can here.

In this video segment from WILD TV, an ornithologist describes his job. [3:54]

Multiple activities help students gain a better understanding of birds and their role in the food web. Click on the links provides for further exploration.

In this lesson, students will learn bird characteristics through observation and classifying activities. Indoors they will be introduced to bird study through learning about John James Audubon, followed by a basic drawing lesson to aid...

This lesson serves as an introduction to classification. The young scholars will place animals into its proper vertebrate group according to certain characteristics that the animals have in common.

Students will investigate the characteristics of birds, what birds live in their schoolyard, and whether it is a suitable habitat for birds. This leads into a discussion of how to improve the schoolyard so it will attract more birds.

Young scholars will compare and contrast different kinds of birds' bills and categorize pictures. After drawing the bills in each category, they will then compare the bill types with common household items.

A site on how birds fly discusses their anatomy that allows them to fly. Also discusses the role that feathers play in flight. Also includes a section which discusses other insects that fly.

This site from Geographica.com contains information on a variety of parks in Argentina. A description of each follows the name of the park.

Explore this comprehensive resource on the birds and mammals of the tundra. This resource features information such as diet, class, order, size, habitat, conservation range and the like.

Be amazed at how these beautiful birds can be used to help students learn about science, math, geography and culture. Site is the most comprehensive one available about hummingbird natural history.

Birds can offer hints to the health of the planet as they are found everywhere, migrate to many new environments, and play a role in our culture with their vibrant shades and sounds. Identify specific ways we can learn about our own...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This link will place at your fingertips all kinds of resources for your science unit pertaining to animals such as birds, bugs, dinosaurs, endangered species, fish, mammals and reptiles.

A lesson to research statistics of local birds to identify if any of the populations are in decline. Based on the research, students will recommend an action plan to help any populations which are struggling.

Build this easy bird feeder at home with simple household items and an empty milk carton.

Figure out how to keep birds off airport runways by following this experiment with scarecrows.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Book about Birds by Religious Tract Society (1865), a nonfiction book about birds by type: water birds, wading birds, field birds, birds of prey, song birds, etc.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bird and Animal Series: Large Birds by McLoughlin Bros. (1886), a nonfiction, illustrated book about large birds such as swans and parrots.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bird and Animal Series: Small Birds by McLoughlin Bros., a nonfiction book of illustrated stories about small birds.

Examine the unusual bower-building behavior of the bowerbird, identify unique characterists of different bowers and match bowers to their male owners and female mates.

A very good site about the circulatory system of a bird. It is reader friendly, and includes a fair amount of information. Good diagram of the circulatory system.