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You have tools around the house that are similar to bird's beaks or bills.
You have tools around the house that are similar to bird's beaks or bills.
A strainer Chopsticks
Plastic drinking straw
Pliers Tweezers Tongs
With some simple supplies like the tools above, some cups, bowls and plates along with the "food" you are all set to go. "Food" consists of dry beans, bird seed, gummy worms or bait worms, water and a piece of wood with holes or cracks in it.
This example represents birds with thick bills for seed eating. Examples would be cardinals, grossbeaks, and parrots.
Fill a bowl with bird seed and add in some dry beans, the object is to fish out the beans and break them with the piers. Broken beans are placed on the plate.
This example represents birds that eat out of the water, ducks, geese, swan and spoonbills fit in this category.
Fill a large bowl with water and bird seed and water, using the strainer scoop out the seed and place it on the plate.
This example represents birds like hummingbirds that drink nectar. Two cups and a plate to protect from spills along with a plastic soda straw is all you need. The object
This example is one of a bird with a long beak or bill like a great blue heron or an egret, these birds stick their long bills into the water to get their food. For this one a pair of tongs some pennies a cup, plate and water is all it takes.
Birds sometimes eat worms. This example using chop sticks, bird seed and some gummy or imitation bait worms shows how birds stick a bill into the sand or soil to get worms. Birds in this category include snipes, robins, and sand pipers.
Tweezers are the tool for this one. You will need, tweezers a log or piece of wood with holes or cracks and small seed bird seed. Put seed in the holes and cracks, use the tweezers to get the seed out and place them on a plate. This represents those birds like woodpeckers that eat insects out of dead trees.
Extensions
Extensions
Make it a competition, place the stations around and mix up the tools. See who has the most success. Do some tools work for more than one station? Time your stay at each station. Guess the bird that has a bill like that tool. Find other tools in your home that might represent a bird.
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