Coo's Who?
This bird was a close relative to the Mourning Dove but is now extinct.
What is the Passenger Pigeon?
The bluebird's beak shape indicates they eat these types of food.
What are insects and berries?
This is the name of the last known Passenger Pigeon.
Who is Martha?
Name an animal referenced in the "January" chapter.
What is...
Skunk, meadow mouse, mink, muskrat, owl, rabbit, chickadee?
This North America bird lays its eggs in other birds nest, forcing that bird to raise its young.
What is the Brown-headed Cowbird?
This is the actual reason the mourning dove gets its name, not because of when it's active.
What is the sad / mournful sound it makes?
In the bluebird model with 100% survival, starting with 1 pair producing 2 broods of 5 eggs each, you'd have this many bluebirds at the end of year 1.
What is 12?
Passenger pigeons typically laid this many eggs.
What is one or two?
This animal is the main protagonist in the chapter "January".
What is the skunk?
What is a way that we can show gratitude to God for the gift of the natural world?
What is be a good steward and take good care of it?
This is the special the way mourning doves (and other doves) can drink.
What is they don't need to tilt their head up to drink water like other birds do?
This is the maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain.
What is Carrying Capacity?
Name one food item of the Passenger Pigeon.
What are nuts, fruit or insects?
This is what skunks typically do during the coldest winter months.
What is hibernate?
This woodland bird has a beautiful, flute-like song that Audubon was especially fond of.
What is the Wood Thrush?
Both parents perform these two caregiving tasks together for their young.
What is incubation and feeding of young?
Name one mechanism or way that an animal's population is kept in check.
What is predation?
What is starvation?
What is death by disease?
What is death by cold or hot weather?
What is lack of nesting places or cover?
The year the last known passenger pigeon died.
What is 1914?
This northern bird is mentioned that hunts mice exposed by the winter thaw.
What is Rough-legged Hawk?
Crows and jays display this behavior when they discover a predator such as a fox or hawk.
What is mobbing?
Young mourning doves are fed this special substance by their parents.
What is crop milk?
Left unchecked, this is the type of growth animal populations have.
What is exponential?
These two main human activities led to the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.
What is over hunting and habitat destruction?
Meadow mice create these under the snow.
What are maze like tunnels in the grass?
This special capability was cited by philosophers as unique among man in terms of our senses.
TWhat is to be able to truly "observe" the world around us?