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The Bow Valley Bird Bonanza!Every student at Elizabeth Rummel School
is challenged to identify at least five different bird species between May 26 and
3 June!
Check out our website for other resources to help you learn about birds… And read
on for a game to help you learn about these birds!
Here’s how this game works:
The next pages list birds that you might see around where you live…
Name that bird!
Black-capped chickadee
Mésange a tête noir
Was that easy?This next birds colour is in its
name…
Blue Jay
Geai Bleu
How about this one?
Rufous hummingbird
Colibri roux
Hint: this bird
‘swallows’ lots of
mosquitos…
Tree swallow
Hirondelle bicolore
• Perhaps this is a little harder. Have you ever had one of these wake you up in the morning?
Black-billed magpie
Pie bavarde
Come to the school library to see some huge pictures of these birds!
Next, lets take a look at some birds you might see in the
schoolyard - if you remember to keep your eyes to the sky!This first bird is so hardy, it
can live here all winter long..
That thick bill! Those rough neck feathers! It must be a…
Common raven
Grand corbeau
… the next bird isn’t exactly a ‘Sea’ gull. Check out its bill!
Ring-billed gullGoéland à bec cerclé
Next bird is smaller than a raven, and just says
‘Caw…’
Crow
Corneille d’Amérique
Imagine you were walking down by the Bow River. What
do you think you would see first?
The name of this bird includes the colour of its eye. Can you tell which one is the female (hint:
females have to hide from predators when they sit on
nests).
Common goldeneye duck
Garrot à oeil d’or
the female duck is more camoflaged, isn’t it?
This next bird lives here all winter long, and dips its body up and down to help see how
far away things are!
American dipperCincle d’Amérique
You can sometimes see this next bird in
Canmore’s hockey rink…
Bald Eagle (aka ‘Eddie’)Pygargue à tête blanche
This next bird is a GOOSE. And it lives in CANADA.
(Hope you don’t need another hint…)
Canada gooseBernache du Canada
(their babies look a bit like tennis balls, don’t you
think?)
Next bird is harder…
Spotted sandpiperChevalier branlequeu
Next bird is a cool hawk that likes to eat fish, and
builds big nests…
OspreyBalbuzard
Policemans Creek is a good place to go bird-watching. To
get there you have to walk right past the ‘Drake’ Inn…
(hint, hint!)
Mallard duckCanard colvert
The drake is the male duck - it is more brightly coloured…
This next bird flits about tree branches and eats the insects it
finds there. Its song is a ‘warble…’
Yellow-rumped warblerParuline à croupion jaune
Next up: a bird that lays its eggs in other birds
nests. The baby birds are raised by someone else!
Brown-headed cowbirdVacher à tête brun
Imagine, now, that you are walking in the forest…
hey, what is that tapping sound?
Hairy woodpecker
Pic chevelu
If you put sunflower seeds in your birdfeeder (just during
the winter, please!), you’ll see lots of this next bird…
Red-breasted nuthatch
Sittelle à poitrine rousse
Next: a sparrow that might sing in your backyard. The song sounds something like ‘Camptown racetrack five
miles long…’
White-crowned sparrowBruant à couronne
blanche
(by the way, sparrows can crack open seeds. Go
back and check out this bird’s strong bill!)
Here’s a neat bird that you can see on the Rundle Forbay or on any large lake. Its call
makes it sound like a lunatic!
Common Loon Huart â collier
When loon babies are young, they can get very
tired and cold. That is why they sometimes get a piggyback from the Mum
or Dad!
This next bird can fly silently, and see its prey on even the
darkest night. It is one of nature’s best hunters…
Great Horned Owl Grand Duc d’Amérique
(those horns are actually
feathers - can you tell?)
Last but not least: thousands of these birds fly over
Canmore’s mountains every year during migration. They are so cool, we even have a festival to celebrate them!
Golden eagleAigle royal
If you want to see those golden neck feathers up close - check out the eagle that we might have in the school library.
Happy Birding!