LiD Paragraph #23

Bailey le Breton

2-25-14

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#23

                I am writing about blue birds for this week’s paragraph.  The female blue bird is not as colorful as the males.  These birds like open grass land and more spread out types of tree lands.  Blue birds can repopulate about one to two broods during the spring and summer.  Predators of the blue bird are cats, snakes, and raccoons.  The male will sometimes claim wood posts for making fences as marking territory’s.  The female can have up to six eggs; these eggs are usually pail blue or white.  This blue bird is normally found at lower elevations of the Mountain.

                           

LiD Paragraph #22

   Bailey Lebreton

2-20-14

LiD paragraph

#22

                Finally I am moving onto the “pick a bird and write about it stage”.  For this week’s paragraph I am researching the American Robin.  The American Robins are the most common backyard birds in North America.  These birds migrate through Canada and The United States seasonally.  Robins are sometimes found in backyards, parks, and open spaces.  Most humans recognize there high pitch warble.  These birds spend their time alone or in pairs in the breading season, and in flocks the rest of the year.  Male birds are very protective over their nests and feeding areas.  Sometimes they are a little over protective and occasionally attack their reflection in glass windows and outer car mirrors.  Two to three times a year bird couples will have three to eight blue eggs.  The female dose most of the taking care of the eggs.  She sits on them twelve to fourteen days out of the season.  I enjoyed researching this topic and I hope you liked my paragraph.

        

                                           Robins                                                                  Their eggs    

LiD Paragraph #21

Bailey Lebreton

2-10-14

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#21

                My friend Caden and I put seeds and oatmeal in the feeder for the birds.  Then I saw birds on the feeder and I took a lot of pictures with my parents camera.  I made all my cards for my game:  my seed salary cards, house deeds, seed stocks, and the career cards.  There are about ten each.  I have been  studying the real game board squares and I am 24 spaces in on making my own game tile fates.

 This is the cover to thegame.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         This is what the board looks like

                On the back of this I have the…  GAME  OF  LIFE  RULES. J  

LiD Paragraph #20

Bailey Lebreton

LiD paragraph #20

Feb. 6-10, 2014

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 I borrowed the game of life from my friend Emma Smith so that my family and I could play with it over the snowy weekend and get the hang of how to make my bird game.  Over the  weekend my mom and I worked on my game board.  We free handedly drew my game squares with pencil and then inked them with black sharpie.  I made nests and pink and blue eggs (to tell the girl and boy baby birds apart) out of sculpey.  Next, we looked for pictures on the internet and in our books from the library to use them as pictures on my game cards for the House/Nest Deeds, Seed Stocks, Bird Careers, and Seed Salaries cards.

                   

                This is a weaver birds nest                                                          This is a weaver bird

      

LiD Paragraph #19

Bailey LeBreton

LiD Paragraph # 19

1-30-14

LiD Paragraph #19

            This week I did some more searching on line for the rules to the game of life, which is the game I am modeling my bird board game after.  I am going to call it “A Birds Life” board game … It’s for the Birds! J    My bird action figures/ game pieces and toys came this week.  My sister and I are excited. I am not sure I will be able to decide which I will put in my game and which I will save for us to play with at home.  While I checked out the rules to playing the Milton Bradley game, I found that the game board I had was going to have to be added to and embellished a little.  We don’t own the board game but I have played the ipod touch app before and love it so I never knew there were mountains, hills, and houses on the actual board game.  I think I will try making some of those details (maybe with sculpey) and add more snake like twists and turns along the game path. Also my mom and I found a website called the game crafter…where people can order all sorts of game stuff.  We ordered some houses that I will make look like bird houses, some money, and I found a better spinner than what I made and it was really cheap (like 32 cents) so I ordered a few more things. 

            I started thinking about what kind of career cards, salary cards, house deeds and stocks cards I might do that would relate to birds.  I still may change some of them to be more birdy… so I am still thinking for now. 

LiD paragraph #18

Bailey LeBreton

LiD paragraph #18

January 23, 2014

LiD Paragraph #18

For this weeks LiD I am FINALLY done with most of my bird research.  I still have a little to look up on bird ecology, but I will add that in later.  Instead, I have been planning out my Bird game and how I will design my game board, rules, ways to move on the board (spinner vs. dice - I chose spinner),  J and what game pieces I will use.  I decided to make a spinner out of cardboard, a brad, and a paper clip.  Then I worked on a plan to decorate my game board with makers, magazine clippings of birds, paints, colored pencils, and glitter paint. (Right up my alley!!!) yeah!!! I will try and do some of this on the weekend since I don’t have a volleyball tournament and I will probably take pictures that I can put on my website to show what I did …..Last but not least….I researched what bird game pieces I wanted to use for each player.  I am sooooo excited about my two variety packs of Safari ltd. brand bird figurines.  I got one pack of backyard birds and the other of exotic birds, I can’t wait to have them arrive. I ordered them tonight…and they were on sale… score!!  So I ended up ordering a bird coloring book that I plan to use in lots of ways for my LiD project too. It has been a good night!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So happy to be done with some of my research. HEEE hEEE hEEEE….

LiD Paragraph #17

Bailey Lebreton

LiD paragraph

1-16-14

#17

Parental care

                 Parental care is very important the baby’s cannot survive on their own. These baby’s need special care and that’s why the parents are here.  After the baby birds are laid, the mother will start to get a brooding patch. This is a soft layer of warm wrinkly skin and some feathers.  The mothers will use it to nestle on the eggs.  The parents will put compost and sand to keep them just the right temperature.

Fledglings

                Fledglings are young birds that are just getting the hang of flying. They are almost ready to move out of the nest.  Parents will still feed the chick even if it already knows how to fly.  Sometimes birds are pronounced fledge even though they cannot fly.  The ancient Murrelet fledges two days after it is born.

Brood parasites

                Brood parasites are birds that lay there young in other birds’ nests.  Example:  If a cow bird lays their eggs in the Eastern Phoebe’s nest, the Eastern Phoebe will lay on their eggs hatch them and then feed them.   The benefits for the parasitic parent are they don’t have to care for, defend, or hatch their young.  The parasitic parent thus spends more time mating and hatching more eggs because they have more energy and time.  The disadvantage for the host parent is that they have to feed more chicks and the parasitic chicks tend to be larger and dominate during feeding or even kill the other, smaller chicks.  Some host parents, when they realize they have been tricked, will leave the entire nest to die, rather than raise somebody else’s brood.  

LiD Paragraph #16

 Bailey Lebreton

LiD paragraph

1-9-14

#16

Nesting and egg Incubation

                The avian also none as birds, roam around the world, but as they do this they have to stop and nest for the seasons.  These birds will either build a nest or find an abandoned one and call it home.  During the breading season the female will then have to incubate her eggs.  Incubation takes skill, these female birds have to sit on the eggs and keep them warm at a certain temperature.  This helps the birds to develop normally.  The mother tucks her eggs under her chest and keeps them warm.  The bigger the bird, the bigger the eggs, the bigger the eggs, and the longer they take to hatch.

Territories

                Sometimes birds will fight to the death to protect there “homes” or territories.  They do this because they know that there is good food, water, and supplies.  Most birds fight more during mating season.  Birds will normally fight over females because they tend to be picky about their male mate.  There is intense completion against the males to win over their female mate.   

              

               

LiD paragraph #15

Bailey Lebreton

LiD paragraph

1-2-14

#15

Roosting

Birds are pretty particular about where they roost or live for a length of time. These birds look for a spot that is safe, high in a tree and away from predators. When a bird is looking for a place to stay or (roost) it then goes out to find a good high tree, twigs, branches, gum, detail floss, string and anything else a bird would use for building a nest.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                            Breeding

 In a female and male human you should find X and Y Chromosomes.  Now in a female Avian (bird) you should find W an Z Chromosomes and in a male you should find Z and Z Chromosomes.    A female Avian has a cycle just like a female mammal has her baby, now this cycle for humans takes 9 months to grow the baby, this cycle has been cut shorter by 6.6 days for the birds every 10 years, due to environmental stresses put on the animal kingdom.

Birds are very particular when it comes to choosing a mate….

LiD Paragraph #14

                                                                                                                                          Bailey Lebreton

12-30-13

LiD paragraph 

#14

Communicating

                Communicating is something us humans do every day. The funny thing is that birds do it to, except they do it in many different ways like: sometimes they use their tail feathers, wing beats, vocalizing with their vocal chords, dancing, and flaring out their feathers.  Some will beat their tail feathers faster than the naked eye can see.  They use a special time lapse camera that allows us to see the wings flapping or moving.

Flocking

                Birds all over the globe flock.  Some flock because they feel safe others, because it allows more ears and eyes to oversee predators.  When most birds flock they don’t like to be on the outside they also don’t want to be the first to land, weird right?  Some flocks will take turns being in the front and breaking the wind so the others can fly peacefully.  I had no idea that birds could be so smart let alone caring .