House Sparrow Behavior

• very social bird
• bathes in dust and water
• females are dominate
• adults feed on grains & weeds

Blue Bird Behavior

• perfer open grassland with scattered trees
• pedators of young bluebirds are snakes, cats, & racoons
• like platform bird feeders, filled w/ the grubs of a darkling beetle
• helps gardens

chickadee behavior

• permanent residents
• sing a lot
• live in vegitations & cavities
• does not dust bathe
• only females make the nests
• white eggs w/ reddish dots
• 6-8 eggs

Migration Patterns

What is a migration pattern of a bluebird?, you may ask this question.

Resident to medium-distance migrant. Bluebirds leave breeding grounds in the north of their range to winter in the southeastern U.S. or Mex ico. Populations in the northern part of their range are entirely migratory and they spend winters in the southeastern United States or Mex ico. Some fly as far as 2,000 miles between western Manitoba and Texas. Eastern Bluebirds from the southeastern U.S. may  move short distances south or simply remain on their breeding territories all year.

chickadee

•  lively and gregarious
• small North American bird of the titmouse family
•  They often swing upside down from branch tips, searching for the insects that form more than half their diet.
• Their call note gives the bird its name.
•  Chickadees are classified in the phylum Chordata

Chickadees

Chickadees are very distintive

Info On The Blue Bird

• blue birds are blue
• round head
• short legs
• large eyes
• plump body
• alert posture
• perch on wires
• blue birds love to sing
• they have 4-7 eggs
• baby blue eggs
• nest made of twigs
• they eat insects                                                                                                                               We are trying to bring Blue Birds into Chatfield School  grounds.