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Save the Birds!

Save the Birds! . 5 th Grade. You will be divided up into different groups. 1) Read your group’s assigned article individually and highlight any part that discusses the cause of bird death

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Save the Birds!

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  1. Save the Birds! 5th Grade

  2. You will be divided up into different groups • 1) Read your group’s assigned article individually and highlight any part that discusses the cause of bird death • 2) When you have finished reading, discuss the article with your group and come up with a list of ways that birds can die from the article that you read • 3) Talk with your group and come up with a list of ways that humans could help save birds in their environment

  3. What did you find?

  4. Did You Know? • More than 270 million birds are killed in Canada every year from human related activity—including death by cats owned by humans • Colliding with tall man-made structures • Road deaths

  5. Other ways Birds are killed by Human Activity • Oil • Wind Turbines

  6. How does Oil specifically kill birds? • It coats their feathers with greasy, sticky grime • It misaligns the barbs in their feathers that keep their feathers properly aligned • Cause birds to lose critical body heat --Can drown because their messed up feathers make them unable to stay in the air—can drown --As they try to preen—remove oil from their feathers, they eat toxic sludge that poisons them --oil covering eggs can suffocate the unhatchedchicks

  7. Effect of Oil on Birds

  8. How Oil Affects Birds

  9. Birds will try to preen themselves to the point of exhaustion

  10. Worst Oil Spills • Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the largest accidental spill in world history –April 22, 2010 • Began when an oil well a mile below the surface of the Gulf blew out, causing an explosion that killed 11 people • 2.5 million gallons a day flowed out until they capped the well on July 15, 2010 • Oil gushed from the broken well for more than 85 days • Oiled 572 miles of Gulf shoreline • Killed hundreds of birds and marine life

  11. Worst Oil Spills • Torrey Canyon Oil Spill – March 18, 1967 • Torrey Canyon = a huge ship that could carry 120,000 tons • Hit a coral reef off of the coast of Cornwall • Contaminated 180 miles of coastland • Killed more than 15,000 sea birds

  12. What Can We Do to Help?

  13. We can help by: • Volunteering with cleanup efforts by learning how to clean birds and affected habitats • Donate to organizations that use money to clean up habitats • Dispose of oils in a proper way • Make sure that we keep watercrafts in peak condition • Report any oiled birds to local authorities immediately • Use fewer oil resources • Do not feed birds • Do not let cats wander without a close eye on them • Reduce or contain the use of fireworks

  14. Dawn for Ducks • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEXgApTjYmU

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