DAY 3:

DAY 3: Taking Flight

Activity 1: Bird of the Year!

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.

Things about my choosen Bird

The name for my bird I choose is called a Fantail and in Maori it is called a Piwakawaka bird. The thing that piwakawaka birds normaly eat are moths, flies, beetles and spiders It sometimes eats fruit or fruit that already have been eaten' these are the type of food fantails eat. If you are looking for a place were fantails ive it is good to look in the woods cause that is where you could mainly find fantails.

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?!

The super powers that I would like to have is
healing Powers and secking powers to go with
it. I would like to have healing powers because
If my family get hurt I could heal them with my
super powers. I would also like to have secking
powers so if someone or something of myine gets
lost I can seck it and I would find it in a click and these
are the reasons why I would like to have these type of
powers.

Activity 3: Wind Beneath My Wings [10 points]

Birds and bats are just two species of animal that are able to fly. Did you know that some fish, squirrels and snakes are also able to fly? Check out the ‘Top 10 Flying Animals of the World’ website to learn more about these incredible animals. Once you have explored the site, choose one animal and create a digital learning object (DLO, eg. a poster) that tells us all about the animal. Be sure to include at least three interesting facts and a picture or two of your animal! Please follow these instructions for attributing your pictures properly.

Here is an example of a DLO that was created about lions.

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