Bird migration

people can come and relax, enjoy the sounds of birds and if they want can…

on components of the lessons. The activities were hands-on and put students in charge of their own learning which is the heart of Inquiry-Based Science. The first lesson I observed during my placement was about gravity. Students were given twirly birds to drop to the ground and investigate their patterns of movement. Students cut out a slip of paper from a template and folded two…

During this week I saw an episode of The life of the Birds presented by David Attenborough in which he showed the way which some birds have for catching the attention of a possible couple. Amongst all of them, he showed the lyrebird which seems to have more than 300 different sounds for that, and amongst those sounds there was one that sounded like the alarm of a car and other that sounded like a pneumatic drill, those which are utilized to break streets, all that while deployed the feathers of…

pollen and nectar. Horse fly females usually bite large mammals on the legs or body. Female horse flies must consume a blood meal in order to yield fertile fly eggs. Horse flies have a wide range of hosts which includes livestock, humans, pets and birds. Larvae feed on midges, crane flies and even…

‘Plonk’ the smell of my mum’s homemade peanut chicken curry mixed with textbook ink, escalated through the school locker rooms. "There you go, just what you wanted textbooks coated in foul-smelling yellow slop!" Teased Samantha The feelings of sorrow and despair emerged inside my empty broken heart, I would simply rather be back starving in the Sudanese civil war with menacing storms of missiles buzzing through the detrimental/contaminated air than living in this new…

The organization, diction and figurative language within the poem "A Great Scarf of Birds" by John Updike allows the readers to understand the theme of change is beautiful and prepares them for the narrator 's last statement. The organization highlights the importance of the event, diction further illustrates the tone and the figurative language intensifies the imagery within the piece shedding light on the importance of this time in the narrator 's life. The structure of the narrative poem…

Discussion: 4.1 Point Counts By restraining the recording of species to a 10- 50m fixed radius when in dense forest at kamwala 1 forest, it allows the subtraction the certain bias, such as, the highly vocal forest species; White bellied Go Away bird and Tropical Bulbul, as well as those species which ‘generally’ occur above the canopy (for example; forest raptors). The most widespread species to occur across all the count areas (map 1) were Common Bulbul, Orange ground thrush and…

If you’ve ever been to a beach, or near any source of water, you have likely heard the distinctive cry of these sea faring birds. Smart, resourceful, and adaptable these birds are found all over the globe. While sometimes a nuisance, these birds lead fascinating lives as the most resourceful species around. Habitat Seagulls are found all over the world. From the inland homes in California of the Black Headed Gull to the steep cliff perches of Kittiwakes, Gulls will nest anywhere that they…

ones in the wild will fight and hunt for their food. During the day there is a time when the flamingos have no energy and are able to sleep. The Flamingo ( scientific name: Phoenicopterus) is a very interesting animal. Flamingos are large birds, usually 3 to 5 feet in height, with long necks, sticklike legs and pink or reddish feathers, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. They can live 20 to 30 years in the wild or up to 50 years in a zoo. Flamingos live in large…

BIRD SWARM ALGORITHM: BSA is a new meta-heuristic swarm intelligence algorithm proposed by Xian-Bing Meng [35] , inspired by social behavior and interaction of birds. Different birds gather food in different ways. Foraging is the searching for food resources or gathering food either for immediate consumption or future storage. Birds forage in flocks because they gather more information in flocks than their own intelligence. Group foraging boost-up the chances of detecting predators. While…