Our Grade Four Class Blog The Case of the Curious Classroom 

Today was an excellent day because we learned about a lot of different types of birds. We Skyped with the Bird Studies Canada in Ontario. The first bird was called the Ruby Crowned Kinglet. We learned that it was as heavy as a loonie. It was only seven grams. There was an owl as well. The owl is called a Saw -Whet Owl. The biologists showed us how they banded the birds. They put a number on the band. They put the band on to the vice grip and then placed the band on to the bird’s leg. The man said that it did not hurt the bird. There was another bird that had a yellow spot on the back of the tail. It was called the Yellow Rumped  Warbler. There was a bird that was called the Fox Sparrow because it had fuzzy feathers and it looked like a fox.  The Fox Sparrow has sharp claws to help them dig. The Fox Sparrow has kind of orange and red colours. The biologists also showed us how they let the birds go.  It looked kind of funny because they put the birds in backwards, so they could not fly away. They had a soft net to catch the birds.  They would check every fifteen minutes to see if there was a bird in the net. They said that they did not find many owls, but they actually caught one. It looked like the owl had a bigger head then it’s body. The owl’s eyes coverd almost all of it’s head.  My favourite bird  was seeing the Saw – Whet Owl.