The Bald Eagle is a majestic bird. The adult bird has a brown body, brown wings, white head, and large, hooked yellow bill. Younger birds appear all brown.Bald Eagles almost always live near water because their main food source is fish. Sometimes, however, Bald Eagles will eat dead animals (carrion). They will even steal food […]
A woodpecker is a kind of bird. Woodpeckers are found all over the world except in the North and South poles, Australia, and New Zealand. There are over 200 different kinds of woodpeckers. The two largest woodpeckers, the Imperial Woodpecker and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, are most likely extinct. Animals that are extinct are no longer
Butterflies are some of the most interesting insects on planet Earth. There are more than seventeen thousand different kinds of butterflies! Butterflies come in all shapes and sizes.Butterflies go through four main stages of life. The first stage is the egg stage followed by the larva stage. As a larva, or caterpillar, the future butterfly
The great herds of buffaloes that roamed the plains were essential for all parts of Sioux life and society. For most Sioux villages, “home” was wherever the herds of buffaloes roamed.Before the introduction of the horse, Sioux warriors would hunt the buffaloes by dressing up as wolves as tricking them into running off cliffs and
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. While spending most of his early years at sea, Columbus began to believe that he could find a shortcut to the Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, the King of Portugal refused to finance such a trip, and Columbus was forced to present
Description: The adult House Cricket is about two centimetres in length. The body is usually light brown with black markings about the head and thorax. The female is told from the male by the presence of an ovipositor, a long extension attached to the end of the abdomen, used for depositing eggs in the soil.
The Dallas Cowboys have been an NFL team since 1960. They are one of two teams that play professional football in the state of Texas. It took the Cowboys eleven years before they made the Super Bowl, the NFL championship game. They lost that game to the Baltimore Colts by a score of 16 to
Rainbows are often seen when the sun comes out after or during a rainstorm. Rainbows are caused when sunlight shines through drops of water in the sky at specific angles. When white sunlight enters a raindrop, it exits the raindrop a different colour. When light exits lots of different raindrops at different angles, it produces
Raisins are dried grapes that have been eaten for thousands of years. Nearly 3,500 years ago, the first raisins were discovered as grapes that were drying in the sun on a vine. In medieval Europe, raisins were used as sweeteners, medicine, and even as a form of money!In America, raisins were first grown after an
Sequoyah was a Cherokee silversmith who invented the language known as Cherokee Syllabary.Virtually nothing is known about Sequoyah’s early life. Some historians believe he grew up in Tennessee . He was most likely abandoned by his father, who was thought to have been a fur trader or scout for George Washington. Sometime around 1809, Seqouyah
In 1274, Italian explorers Marco and Niccolo Polo set out on a 24-year journey in which they travelled the famous Silk Road from Italy, through brutal deserts and towering mountains to eastern China. They travelled over 4,000 miles in all. Marco and Niccolo were among the very first Europeans to explore the fabled empire of
Have you ever had the flu? If you have, you know how miserable it can make you feel. Most kids will get the flu sometime during their school years. When you have the flu, you usually get a fever (which can be high), have a cough, feel very tired, and may have a sore throat
Description: The massive California Condor is one of America’s largest and rarest birds. The adult is mostly black with large white wing patches and a featherless head. The colour of the head can vary from white, to pink, to orange, depending on the condor’s emotional state. The male condor has a tuft of black feathers
The stunning Baltimore Oriole is commonly found in to eastern and midwestern deciduous woodlands, neighbourhoods, and gardens. Baltimore Orioles winter in the tropics.About 7 inches in length, the male Baltimore Oriole has a black head, throat, back and wings. Its breast, stomach, and rump are bright orange. It also has an orange patch on the
The Arctic Fox is a small fox found commonly in the arctic regions of the world. Measuring a little less than three feet in length, this fox is mottled brown in the summer and pure white in the winter. Adult foxes weigh between six and twenty pounds, though most are closer to six. Its thick