| | | |  | |  | | | | | ANIMALS Make a collection of small animals from nature objects:
cones, nuts, shells, acorns, feathers. For a beaver, see 110. For other ideas, using cotton, yarn and other materials, see “Animals” in India. See also “Pets” 115, and “Wild Pets,” 166.
*Adapted from a poem by Woodbridge Metcalf of the California Con-servation Council.
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ing them adds interest to the collection. See bird books for examples.
Experiments
1. Carefully pull a bird’s nest apart and list the materials it contains. Study the weaving of the nest—some birds make much finer nests than others. If you already know what bird built the nest, write a description of it for your scrapbook, with other material on the same bird.
2. Plant a bird’s nest in a flower pot, covering with ~4 inch of dirt. Keep moist, and when it sprouts, try to identify what comes u This reveals the needs for that type of bird, both for nesting materials and food. This information also should go into the bird notebook.
References
See list on 2, and the bird guides of Roger Tory Peterson. Also write to the nearest museum and ask for a price list and a booklet on local birds. In addition: Birds in Your Backyard, by Ted Pettit, Harper; Attracting Birds, Cat. #11.72:172, 15~; Homes for Birds, Cat. #11.72:14, 15~, and Migration of Birds, Cat. #149.4:16, 35~, all from Super-intendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. The Audubon Society ( 4) issues songbird phonograph records in addition to books.
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