THE BIG BOOK OF BIRDS BY MADELYN SWEET :D

Birds

By Madelyn Sweet

Birds are a very Great topic to talk about, But people tend to ask ‘Why do they fly away from us?’ And in my research I found out that they don’t trust us.

Later in the book you will find out some facts about birds and things I have researched. So dive deep into this book to find out.

 

Table of contents

  1. Bird facts
  2. Parenting
  3. Bird nest
  4. Conclusion

 

Bird facts

According to my research most birds communicate By sounds. But some communicate by their colors. The type of birds that can grip and hold a perch are normally the ones that can call other birds of their species, But without their call they are hidden and you can’t see them, so the males have brightly colored feathers so the female can see them during mating season.

Another fact that I studied was that the birds’ ancestors were the dinosaurs, the dinosaurs evolved feathers, not to fly but to keep themself warm like the penguins, so one species survived the K/T extinction and laid eggs like doves, doves and penguins. And the reason that modern birds don’t have heads like a dinosaur is because they evolved over the years and look like the normal birds we see today.

 

Parenting

All birds have their ways to attract mates and that’s something I did not need to look up. All animals need to get mates somehow! Even humans do. (Not mates But a love.)

But a thing that I researched was how they do parenting.

A lot of birds work together to raise their young like the cardinals and most species. But some only have one parent taking care of the young and some parents don’t take care of them at all! For example the malleefowl in Australia lays its eggs in some rotting patches of vegetarian that contains heat so after that the offspring are off on their own!

But one species such as the cuckoo lays its eggs in another bird’s nest like an orphanage and then the other bird’s mom takes care of the other birds young till they are ready to leave.

The ways that parents take care of young in the animal kingdom are very surprising.

 

Bird Nests

All birds Build nests because they need them for a home. But they don’t build them on a regular basis. Birds build nests to raise their young in a warm safe place. The birds don’t have feathers till they are 10 weeks or so. So their parents have to build a warm and comfortable place to make them warm such as nests.

Most people think birds build nests out of twigs but they also use other material like mud and leaves and one type of bird like the engineering bird builds their nest out of mud and roots and they make a mud and root ball in the tree and they build it all around them. (And it looks so cool!)

But some birds like the peacock and all the other big animals that can’t go in trees build their nests on the ground in areas that have tall grass and people can’t see them.

(Those birds are sneaky.)

 

Conclusion

Now that’s all in the big book of birds! Now you know all about how birds are parents, some unusual facts and all about bird nests! Thank you so much for reading this book and reading all my others. Thank you again!

Sincerely

Madelyn

Sweet

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