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Spring
ring g is here. It is time to watch for the tiny y
hummingbirds
mingbirds flitting around
arou und your neighborhood.
Hummingbirds
mmingbirds are part of f the second largest
larrg gest bird
family
ily in the world, with more
m than 300 species
orldwide and 13 species
specie es in North America.
worldwide
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The ruby-throated hummingbird weighs less than a
ave you
yo ou ever watched a
humm
mingbird flying by
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and noticed
ee em to change as
feathers seem
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they move e into
t? ? Hummingbird
light?
er rs are iridescent,
iridescent ,
feathers
ni ing that reflections
meaning
ig ght make them
of light
pp pear differently.
difff ferently .
appear
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me hummingbirds
Some
re e more colorful
are
th han others. Male
than
humming gbirds are usually
hummingbirds
ore colorful
color rful than females,
more
cause they
the ey need to attract
because
wh hile the females
a mate, while
nd to camouflage
cam
mouflage better
tend
th their nesting
n
with
spots.
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birds that can fly in any
_______________:
forward, backward,
up, down and side-to-side.
Hummingbirds pollinate
sticks to their wings. This
feeding behavior is vital to
helping ______________
Do hummingbirds hum? Yes! Their wings make a
faint humming sound when they are
become pollinated, which
makes hummingbirds very
important to the ecosystem.
During migration,
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Can you correct them?
ruby-throated hummingbirds
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Hummingbirds are the only
flowers
f
because ____________
The smallest hummingbird lives in Peru
and is the size of a
To o get energy,
T
enerrg gy , hummingbirds
hummingb
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eat sugar in the form of
nectar from flowers
or from homemade
nectar in feeders,
which they lap up
using their long
tongues.
Replace the missing words
to learn more about
hummingbirds.
to 22 hours of
________________________
_
flight over 500 miles of water.
water .
The rufous hummingbird has
the longest
ongest migration traveling
up to 6,000 miles from its
winter home to its
_________________
breeding grounds.
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Hummingbirds nests and eggs
Hummingbirds have an inc
incredibly
credibly fast t metabolism so o they need to eat all
day long. One hummingbird
hummingbi ird can eat up to twice its body
bod dy weight and feed on
hundreds of flowers in a si
ingle day.
day . If humans had a metabolism
m
single
as fast as a
hummingbird’s,
hummingbird’
hummingbird
s we would d need to eat more than 1,500
s,
1 500 0 of these in one day:
On one page of the
n
newspaper
, try to find
newspaper,
a circle one of each
and
letter of the alphabet.
C
Connect
the circles to
make a picture.
p
are tiny.
tiny . The eggs are
about the size of a
_______________________.
The nest is about the
size of a walnut.
Standards Link: Language Arts:
S
F
simple written directions.
Follow
Draw what comes
c
next in each ro
row
ow to
continue
continu ue the spring pattern.
Standards Link: Math: Recognise
e and extend patterns.
An abbreviation is a short version of a word.
Look at a newspaper page and circle every
abbreviation. Copy these onto
o a piece of paper
and write the long version of each word.
Standards Link: Research: Use the ne
newspaper
ewspaper to locate information.
CAMOU
CAMOUFLAGE
UFLAGE
FEATHERS
FEA
A THE
T ERS
COLOR
RFUL
COLORFUL
DESIGNED
DESIGN
NED
HUMMING
HUMM
MING
SPECIES
SPECIE
ES
SPRING
G
F
AMIL
A LY
FAMILY
WINGS
S
LIGHT
SPOTS
MALE
MA
A TE
T
MATE
RUBY
TINY
H C O L O R F U L S
S Y L I M A F H G E
R U M G M W U N E I
E Y I H N M I T G C
H B N T M R A N B E
T U I
I P M R L G P
A R N S T O P S E S
E G A L F U O M A C
F D D E N G I S E D
This week’
week’s s word:
CAMOUFLAGE
The verb camouflage means
T
to o hide or diguise something.
The green
g
feathers
camouflaged the bird
in the tall grass.
Try
T
ry
r to use the word
camouflage in a sentence
today when talking with
your friends and family
family. .
If You Were
a Bird
If you were a bird, what
kind would you be? Why?