Internet Scavenger Hunt

City Wildlife

Directions: Visit each website listed below. Search or browse the website to find the answers to each question. Fill in your answers on the lines provided.

Jump to Site: 1 2 3 4 5

Go to Web site #1: Enchanted Learning

Question 1: How fast do hummingbirds beat their wings?

Answer: Their wings beat 55-75 times per second.

Here's how to find the answer: Type "hummingbirds" into search, click on Hummingbird Printout- EnchantedLearning.com, scroll to first paragraph.

Source URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/
Hummerprintout.shtml

Question 2: What color are the feathers on a male hummingbird’s throat?

Answer: Male hummingbirds have red feathers on their throat.

Here's how to find the answer: Type "hummingbirds" into search, click on Hummingbird Printout- EnchantedLearning.com, answer is contained on illustration.

Source URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/
Hummerprintout.shtml

Go to Web site #2: Ranger Rick

Question 1: Bats are mammals. List the habitat for the Big Brown Bat.

Answer: Forests, farmlands, cities, and parks. Summer and winter roosts are usually in buildings, not often in caves.

Here's how to find the answer: Click mammals, click Big Brown Bat, scroll to habitat.

Source URL: http://www.nwf.org/kidZone/kzPage.cfm?SiteID=3&department
Id=107&articleId=185&cat=ma&guideAction=species&species_id=3882

Question 2: Does the Little Brown Bat have the same habitat? If not, list its habitat.

Answer: No. Near lakes and streams. Summer: mothers and young in buildings; winter: hibernates in caves.

Here's how to find the answer: From Big Brown Bat scroll down to Little Brown Bat link and click.

Source URL: http://www.nwf.org/kidZone/kzPage.cfm?SiteID=3&department
Id=107&articleId=185&cat=ma&guideAction=species&species_id=3888

Go to Web site #3: Yahooligans! Animals

Question 1: How long is a gray squirrel’s body? How long is its tail?

Answer: Body 8-9” long; Tail 8-9” long

Here's how to find the answer: Scroll down to Rodents and Moles section. Click on the Eastern Gray Squirrel link, scroll to link.

Source URL: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/species/
3992.html

Question 2: What are some signs that a gray squirrel has been around?

Answer: Gnawed acorn husks or other nutshells, especially hickory, walnut, beechnut, or pecan, littering the ground. Nuts show large ragged edged hole or are crushed. Corncobs with only germ end of kernels eaten. In winter and spring, ragged little holes in snow or earth where squirrels have dug up nut caches. Gnawings on tree trunks and limbs, similar to porcupine's but with smaller tooth marks and no droppings below. Nest: Placed in a hollow tree or a loose, ball-shaped nest of leaves in high tree crotches or limbs (obvious in winter in bare branches); in summer, "cooling beds" or "loafing platforms" (flatter, smaller leaf nests without cavity). Scat: Small, dark, and oval; seldom conspicuous.

Here's how to find the answer: From Gray Squirrels sight, click the track and sign info. link, scroll to signs

Source URL: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals/track/3992.html

Go to Web site #4: Pigeon Watch

Question 1: What do you call a young pigeon that is learning to eat?

Answer: Peeper or Squeaker

Here's how to find the answer: Click Cool Facts about Pigeons, scroll to "A pigeon family".

Source URL: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/urbanbirds/CoolFacts/
ubs_PIW _SP_CoolFactsEN.html

Question 2: A pigeon drinks water differently than other birds. How does it drink?

Answer: Pigeons suck up water, using their beaks as straws.

Here's how to find the answer: Click Cool Facts about Pigeons, scroll to "Unique drinking behavior".

Source URL: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/urbanbirds/CoolFacts/
ubs_PIW_SP _CoolFactsEN.html

Go to Web site #5: Defenders of Wildlife-Kids’ Planet

Question 1: How fast can an adult peregrine falcon dive?

Answer: 200 miles per hour

Here's how to find the answer: From main sight click the Get the Facts link, in the North America column scroll down to Peregrin Falcon, click link, answer is in description.

Source URL: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/peregrinefalcon.html

Question 2: What do peregrine falcons eat? How do they catch their prey?

Answer: Peregrine falcons eat other birds such as songbirds and ducks and occasionally bats. They catch their prey in mid-air.

Here's how to find the answer: From same page scroll down to Food.

Source URL: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/peregrinefalcon.html

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Created by: Gina Wilcox
Last Modified: November 12, 2005
School Name: Clara W. Rutherford Academy
School District: Detroit Public Schools
Created for MET6203, Computer Applications in Education, Lawrence Technological University