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• CCPL Video: Five Little Ducks

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  Join Miss Lauren and Thelma the duck as they share the song Five Little Ducks by Raffi.

• Video: Birds

  View on scholastic.com

  Check out this short video and neat ebook to get an overview of birds and their feathers.

• Article: From Fluffy to Fierce

  View on gale.com

  Read this short National Geographic article about how snowy owl chicks become fierce predators!

• Activity: Bird Academy • The Cornell Lab

  View on allaboutbirds.org

  Check out these cool games from the Bird Academy! We recommend Flap to the Future.

• Activity: Flying Bird

  View on artistshelpingchildren.org

  Complete this craft to create your own flying bird!

• Experiment: Bird Bone Experiment

  View on abnc.ca

  Complete this experiment to find out how bird bones help them fly.

• Explore Flight!

  With 25 Great Projects

  Yasuda, Anita

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  Check this out! We recommend making the ornithopter on pages 16-17.

• Secrets of Flight

  Solway, Andrew

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  Find out more about flight and try out some of the science experiments in this ebook. We recommend exploring Newton's third law of motion in the chapter titled "How do aircraft engines work."

• Origami Birds

  Make Colorful Origami Birds with This Easy Origami Kit: Includes Origami Book with 20 Projects: Great for Kids and Adults!

  LaFosse, Michael G.

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  The crane is one of the best known origami designs--can you make this or any of the other featured birds?

• Birds

  Hoare, Ben,

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  All you could ever want to know about birds--plus, you can see how a human's height compares to various birds' wingspans at the back of the book!

• Feathers

  Not Just for Flying

  Stewart, Melissa

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  Feathers serve multiple purposes for birds. Find out just how useful they are in this book.

• Fly!

  Teague, Mark,

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  This funny, wordless picture book shows a baby bird first learning how to fly.

• Bird's-eye View

  Keeping Wild Birds in Flight

  Eriksson, Ann, 1956-

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  Soaring birds are a beautiful sight to see in the sky, but you may be seeing fewer and fewer as more birds become extinct.

• Counting Birds

  the Idea That Helped Save Our Feathered Friends

  Stemple, Heidi E. Y.

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  Bird counting has helped scientist discover more about our feathered friends and helped save thousands of species from going extinct.

• Look Up!

  Bird-watching in Your Own Backyard

  Cate, Annette

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  A guide to help you bird watch and count from where ever you are.

• Owl Tree

  Montgomery, R. A.,

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  In this story, you get to decide which adventure the magical owls take you on!

• Birds

  MacLeod, Jilly,

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  A great Arabic book about birds.

• Rio

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  And for some added fun, enjoy this movie about a flightless bird finding true love!

• Citizen Science

  Observing Pollinators

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  Want to keep the fun going? Grab one of our Citizen Science Kits! In Observing Pollinators, you can use the supplies provided to help you spot birds and other winged creatures in your own backyard!