These feet may not be your idea of beautiful,
but their avian owners think they fit the bill.
Read the clues
That tell how they are used.
Then figure out whose is whose.
1. As this tall bird slowly wades, it uses its feet to stir up the water, flushing out fish.2. This diving bird’s webbed feet assist it in swimming, and their bright color attracts mates.3. This fowl’s feet distribute its weight like snowshoes, allowing it to walk on floating vegetation.Wood Stork, Mycteria americanaRed-footed Booby on Nest, Sula sulaPurple Gallinule, Porphyrio martinicus
Migrating animals
Never guess.
They know where to go
With no GPS.
Bottlenose Dolphin
Definition: MIGRATE means to move from one region or habitat to another.
Male Monarch Butterfly
Derivation: MIGRATE comes from the Latin word migrāre,
which means to move from place to place.
Other words with this root: Immigrant a person who comes to live permanently in a new country Migrant a person or animal who migrates OR a person who moves from place to place for work, especially a farm laborer
African Elephant
Examples: Gray Whales
Each fall they travel 5,000 miles from Arctic feeding grounds to warm Mexican breeding lagoons. In the spring they head back. African Elephant
At the start of the dry season they migrate to find water holes. Monarch Butterflies
In autumn, they fly 2,500 miles to warmer regions in Mexico or southern California.
Did You Know? Many European song birds migrate to Africa in the winter. Some scientists believe they use this time to practice their singing–“like a bird band camp”–in preparation for the mating season when they return.
Male Red-Winged Blackbird
In the news:
Read about “bird band camp”: New Scientist
Judith Jango-Cohen 