WEEK 3: Up, Up and Away
DAY 3: Taking Flight
Activity 1: Bird of the Year! [4 points]
Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many different kinds (species) of native birds. Sadly, about a third of our native bird species are at risk of disappearing forever (becoming extinct).
Each year, Forest and Bird New Zealand hold a ‘Bird of the Year’ competition where people can vote for their favourite native bird. This year, the winner was the kererū (or woodpigeon).
Go onto the Bird of the Year website, look through the native birds on the site, and choose one that interests you.
On your blog, write a short description of your bird. Where does your bird normally live? What does your bird normally eat? Post a picture of the bird underneath your description. Be sure to attribute your picture properly.
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| Credit: New Zealand Fantail by Bernard Spragg .NZ is licensed by cc-by-sa-2.0 |
Activity 2: Flying Foxes [4 points]
Not only is New Zealand home to many native birds but we also have a number of native bats. Some of these bats are really small while others are much larger. None, however, are as large as the largest bat in Australia. It is called the flying fox (pictured below) and it has a wingspan of up to 6 feet or 2 metres. Wow! That is taller than most of us! 
Flying foxes usually sleep during the day and hunt for food at night, using their ears to guide them through the darkness. Like other bats, they have the best hearing of any mammal. It is their ‘superpower.’
If you could have a superpower, what would it be? If I could choose, I would like to be able to fly. It would make it possible for me to fly back to Canada and visit my family whenever I wanted. How amazing would that be?!
On your blog, tell us what superpower you would like to have and why you’d like to have it.
I would like to have the power to heal people, time travel, immortality and magic. I would like the power to heal people, because if someone gets hurt I can easily heal them. I would love to have a the power to time travel so I can find out what happened in the early days of earth. For the last two I would to have them because I can live forever and I could make people come back to life with magic.
Hi Lyan,
ReplyDeleteThe fantail is my favourite bird! I love the little black piwakawaka that flit around in trees next to the path when you are bush walking. They seem so tame, clever, and sociable.
They would be great superpowers to have. I particularly love that you have chosen the power to heal people - that is very thoughtful. I would love to be able to do that too. You would be kept busy! I guess having magic as a superpower would mean you could do all sorts of things - very clever!
Thanks for sharing your ideas.
From Laura