Paradise Shelduck

The Paradise Shelduck is a prized game bird. Its Māori name is Putangitangi. The Paradise Shelduck is a member of the Duck family. The Male has a black head and barred black body. The Female has a white head with a chestnut body. The Paradise Shelduck has a pointy tail. They are all over New [...]

Fantail

The Fantail’s Māori name is Piwakawaka. It is a Flycatcher. The Fantail has ten feathers at the back of the body in a fan shape. It has a beak, two legs, two wings and feathers on its body. It lives in trees and forests. It flies to catch its food and spreads its wings out [...]

A Big Bunch of Bird Blog Posts

Information reports were our writing focus for Term 4.  We read a lot of them, in School Journals, in books from the library, in magazines and on the Internet.     First we wrote a group report about kiwi and published it here on our wiki – some people added more and edited it. We [...]

Bird Models

We made some bird models.  Even though we call them papier mache -they’re not really. You need – plenty of newspaper some wide brown parcel tape or masking tape kitchen towels pva glue card/cardboard other bits and pieces (for feet, beak, legs) hot glue gun (a hairdryer is useful too) Scrunch up the newspaper into [...]

Kea

  by HunAme

Kingfisher

by BarHam

Tui

by ArtSha

Kea

  by GorCar

Morepork

  by TayCen

Fantail

  by HekTyr

New Zealand Falcon

  by LovTav

Kea

  by WaaHin

Kākāpō

by WilGor

Tui

  by ThoSky

Birds in a Tree

You can’t hear this during the day when the school is filled with the noise of childen playing.  In the big tree near the swimming pool there are lots of birds,  This is what they sound like.

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