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The Mistletoe Bird

The Mistletoe Bird. By: Anna Heinz, Cain Resendez, Nicole Sabers, and Christian Westhoff . Breeding.

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The Mistletoe Bird

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  1. The Mistletoe Bird By: Anna Heinz, Cain Resendez, Nicole Sabers, and Christian Westhoff

  2. Breeding The female Mistletoe Bird makes the nest all by herself while the male eats. She makes it out of crushed plants and spider webs. She will lay 5-10 eggs in this nest. They will hatch in 6-8 days. Both parents will help feed the hatchlings. Somehow the male knows when to come back to the nest. Scientists still don’t know how they know.

  3. FOOD The mistletoe bird eats mistletoes off the mistletoe tree. Bees don’t pollinate mistletoes. So when the bird poops it wipes it’s butt on the tree branch. It takes about 5-24 minutes depending on how old the mistletoe is to digest.

  4. Inheritance Mistletoe bird inherit its size, shape, colors of feathers, beak, eye color.

  5. Their environment Mistletoe birds live where there are trees and shrubs, so that they can build their nest in the country Indonesia in the Arafura Sea between Australia and New Guinea .

  6. GROWTH AND DEVOLOPEMENT The Mistletoe bird is small 9–10 cm long and 7.5–11 g weight. The male is glossy blue-black on top with a red chest and a slight red under tail and a black stripe running down its white belly. The female is dark grey above, with a white throat with a light grey on the bottom. The bill is just over a centimeter long.

  7. Stable Enviorment mistletoe birds are warm-blooded. The mistletoe bird stays worm by its feathers insulate good in cold weather.

  8. resources • Wikipedia.com • Google.com • Ask.com • Anwser.com

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