4B COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL MAY 10, 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.
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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
NICH
THROAT
CABK
TEHCS
RUMP
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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
Hummingbirds are the only
birds that can fly in any
_______________:
forward, backward,
up, down and side-to-side.
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
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Replace the missing words
to learn more about
hummingbirds.
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.
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.
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
If you were a bird, what
kind would you be? Why?
Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
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