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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2017 © 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Spring is here. It is time to watch for the tiny hummingbirds flitting around your neighborhood. Hummingbirds are part of the second largest bird family in the world, with more than 300 species worldwide and 13 species in North America. Use the code to learn more. = A = B = E = F = G = I = L = N = P = Y The ruby-throated hummingbird weighs less than a Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 33, No. 22 ave you ever watched a hummingbird flying by and noticed that their feathers seem to change as they move into different light? Hummingbird feathers are iridescent, meaning that reflections of light make them appear differently. Some hummingbirds are more colorful than others. Male hummingbirds are usually more colorful than females, because they need to attract a mate, while the females tend to camouflage better with their nesting spots. Photos courtesy of Perky-Pet® The smallest hummingbird lives in Peru and is the size of a To get energy, hummingbirds eat sugar in the form of nectar from flowers or from homemade nectar in feeders, which they lap up using their long tongues. Some of the names of a hummingbird’s body parts in this chart have been scrambled. Can you correct them? LBLI CROWN PRIMARY FEATHERS Perky-Pet®, the world’s top manufacturer of bird feeders, wants to help you celebrate spring by providing 25 lucky Kid Scoop readers with a free Perky-Pet® Hummingbird Feeder Kit, which includes a feeder, nectar packet, feeding guide and more! To enter to win, send a postcard or letter with your name and mailing address to: Perky-Pet® Feeder Contest c/o Kid Scoop P.O. Box 1802 Sonoma, CA 95476 NICH THROAT CABK TEHCS RUMP Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly in any _______________: forward, backward, up, down and side-to-side. During migration, ruby-throated hummingbirds fly non-stop over the Gulf of Mexico – it can take up to 22 hours of ________________________ flight over 500 miles of water. The rufous hummingbird has the longest migration traveling up to 6,000 miles from its winter home to its _________________ breeding grounds. No purchase necessary. Entry must be received no later than May 31, 2017. Void where prohibited. FLANK LAIT Replace the missing words to learn more about hummingbirds. Hummingbirds pollinate flowers because ____________ sticks to their wings. This feeding behavior is vital to helping ______________ become pollinated, which makes hummingbirds very important to the ecosystem. Do hummingbirds hum? Yes! Their wings make a faint humming sound when they are GINW 5 B TOFO On one page of the newspaper, try to find and circle one of each letter of the alphabet. Connect the circles to make a picture. Hummingbirds have an incredibly fast metabolism so they need to eat all day long. One hummingbird can eat up to twice its body weight and feed on hundreds of flowers in a single day. If humans had a metabolism as fast as a hummingbird’s, we would need to eat more than 1,500 of these in one day: Hummingbirds nests and eggs are tiny. The eggs are about the size of a _______________________. The nest is about the size of a walnut. Standards Link: Language Arts: Follow simple written directions. Draw what comes next in each row to continue the spring pattern. Standards Link: Math: Recognise and extend patterns. CAMOUFLAGE FEATHERS COLORFUL DESIGNED HUMMING SPECIES SPRING FAMILY WINGS LIGHT SPOTS MALE 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 E Y I H N M I 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’s word: CAMOUFLAGE The verb camouflage means to hide or diguise something. The green feathers camouflaged the bird in the tall grass. Try to use the word camouflage in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family. If You Were a Bird An abbreviation is a short version of a word. Look at a newspaper page and circle every abbreviation. Copy these onto a piece of paper and write the long version of each word. If you were a bird, what kind would you be? Why? Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information. New Patients Welcome Gentle, Personal, Comprehensive Care 5RRW&DQDOV&URZQ%ULGJH([WUDFWLRQV,PSODQW5HVWRUDWLRQV&RVPHWLF'HQWLVWU\7HHWK:KLWHQLQJ Relaxing riverfront view from all rooms. (541) 997-3423 1256 Bay Street
