Teaching Resources: Birds
Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Resources
The Best of Catchment Connections (5Mb pdf)
Includes an introduction to birds, student activties and links to the SACSA Framework. See pages 66-72.
Classroom activities:
Invent a bird (177Kb pdf)
Students invent their own bird by colouring and labelling body parts. Click here for the answers.
What bird am I? (542Kb pdf)
Students guess the names of 5 common birds. Click here for the answers.
More than just pretty feathers (419Kb pdf)
This link provides some great bird watching tips.
Bird cards
Set of 60 bird picture fact cards in full colour. Great for a game of celebrity bird (played just like celebrity head) or have students make up their own game.
Bird ID Charts:
Birds of Onkaparinga Estuary screen version (152k) print version (846k)
Birds of Onkaparinga Estuary and Wetlands screen version (241k)
Birds of Greater Adelaide Estuaries print version- front (155k) print version- back (375k)
Wetland Birds of SA print version (1.4Mb)
Birds Project
This document outlines a unit of work that uses birds to explain species diversity for students in Yr 3 and above. It aims to teach students about the variety of different birds, their behaviour and their niche in a particular ecosystem.
Birds Project Unit Notes (159kb PDF)
Field Guides:
Pizzey and Knight 2001.The Graham Pizzey and Frank Knight Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Harper Collins Publishers Australia.
Prescott,Ann 2002. Common bush birds of the Mt Lofty Ranges, SA Dept for Environment and Heritage.
Rowland, Peter 1998. Green Guide: Birds of Australia, New Holland Publishers Australia.
Simpson and Day 1999. Field Guide to the Birds of Australia, Sixth Edition, Penguin Books Australia.
Slater, Peter 2001. The Slater field guide to Australian Birds, Revised Edition, New Holland Publishers Australia.
Winters, Bob 1999. Australian Guide to Birds, Gould League of Victoria.