LiD paragraph #6

#6

                Did you know that there are more than 8,600 different types of birds? Again like I said in my 4^th paragraph birds are warm blooded Vertebrates that have feathers, beaks, and scaled feet.  From last week’s paragraph we learned about the 5 characteristics that help classify birds which are: lightweight feathers, air-filled bones, powerful breast muscles, designer wings, and amazing migrators. 

1)      Lightweight Feathers – these feathers protect and insulate from the cold; work like a fan to allow birds to fly; body feathers for softness; down feathers lie underneath the other feathers to create another layer of warmth in cold weather

2)      Air-Filled Bones – these bones are special because they have tiny cross linked bones inside but also the backbone, breastbone and ribs are all connected forming one very big bone to support the flight muscles

3)      Powerful Breast Muscles – the heaviest part of the bird because they have to be able to lift themselves in flight.  If the breast muscle isn’t large enough, the bird can’t fly

4)      Designer Wings – each bird has its own set of wings to fit its way of life, some examples are long pointing, like the Swift for flying quickly.  Ground birds like the turkey has rounded wings which allows them to fly vertically.  Birds of prey have long broad wings for gliding and circling through the sky

5)      Amazing Migrators -  will trek across country (up to 300 miles) searching for food 

LiD paragraph #5

          Bailey Lebreton

                10-18-13

              5 paragraph for LiD

#5

     In my last paragraph I said that I wanted to talk about evolution, diversity, modern birds and, how they are classified.  Birds are classified by different characteristics.  The 5 main characteristics of birds are: lightweight feathers, air filled bones, powerful breast muscles, designer wings, and amazing migrators.  The details for each of these characteristics will be next weeks paragraph. If you want to know sooner than next week then follow me on my blog on my website and select the Bailey’s blog on my home page. https://sites.google.com/site/baileysbirdsofafeather167/home

I also wrote my introduction on my home page  this is what it looks like:

Hi I am Bailey Le Breton

and I am currently in 7th grade at Mossier Community school, and this is my website.  I have picks on my website about are trips to Yellowstone National park, Ashland OR.,and lake Tahoe NV. CA. (I am bird watching in the first pick)My website is all about birds.  I intend to have a blog that I will update every week.  On my blog I will put a weekly paragraph about a bird of my choice.  It will include some fun facts or any interesting things I find on that bird.  I hope you find all the information you need.  Have Fun...

                                                                                            

                                                                         Sincerely,    Bailey Le Breton    

         

           

LiD paragraph #4 10/4/13

For my LiD project I am making a website/bird portal to post information that I discover throughout the year.  From now until Christmas I will focus on just finding out about birds: who their ancestors are, their evolution, classification, distribution, anatomy, physiology, behavior, ecology, and relationships with humans.  This organization came from the Wikipedia website, and I felt like the order made a lot of sense for organizing my research.  My goal for every LiD paragraph starting after Christmas is to focus on one bird classification a month, and within that month I will do a new bird each week. I will post the fun facts, projects, information etc. about each bird on my blog that I am learning how to make.   I will still do some of the fun projects like make a game board and a cool book, or recipe that uses bird eggs, or something crazy like that.  The website will be where I can put all my pictures, videos and info.  

                The first part of my learning came from defining what a bird is.  My sister and I made a KWL chart while playing school, and we found we already knew quite a bit I will put our chart on the website.  The google dictionary defines a bird like this a: “a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly.” We both already knew a little about the fact that birds are related to dinosaurs from movies, discovery channel and educational cartoons about dinosaurs. But next week my research and web-building will be about bird evolution, diversity, modern birds, and how the bird books classify the different groups.