AIWC KID'S PAGE

Hi Kids!

It's me, Black Jack, the AIWC educational hawk! Can you please help Marigold and I answer the questions below as teaching kids is our favorite thing to do!!!

Marigold needs your help!!!

Can you help her solve the following wildlife riddles?

1) I am one of the most common songbirds found in the boreal forest of Alberta. My bright color reminds many people of a domestic canary and my 'warbling' call is very common in many aspen forests.

 What am I ? (wlerwlylarob) ____________ _____________

(Click on the songbird picture on the left to check your answer)

  2) The reputation of 3 species in my genus as 'blood suckers' often precedes

  me, but I am no vampire. I am an important part of insect control,

  eating thousands of flying insects in a single night. Without me the mosquito and

  moth population would get out of control as I can eat 600 insects in one hour!! I

  am not a bird.

  What am I ? (blbairttotwnle) _______ ________ ____

  (Click on the vampire to check your answer)

3) I usually surprise everyone that I am an arboreal (animal locomotion in trees) species given my non athletic figure and how clumsy I can be. I become most active at night, often getting hit by cars on the road because I am attracted to the salt that my natural diet lacks.

What am I ? (uiorpencp) _______________

(Click on the tree to check your answer)

Black Jack also needs your help!!!

Can you help him answer the following two questions?

  4) The wildlife biologist asks Black Jack to help the volunteers prepare food for the

  bald eagle in rehabilitation. What would a bald eagle typcially not eat?

      a) carrion

  b) salmon

  c) hare

  d) tree bark

  (Click on the eagle to check your answer)

5) Due to habitat loss, many of our native Alberta species are becoming endangered. Can you help Black Jack identify the rarest member of the deer family in Alberta?

  a) Caribou b) Mule deer c) White-tailed deer

   (Please click on the picture of the rarest Alberta deer to check

  if you got the correct answer)