enlumn.
← All courses

How Birds Work

Follow Anna’s hummingbirds and Western gulls through feathers, flight, breathing, feeding, sensing and reproduction. Use experiments and observation to explain how a bird’s body works as a whole.

8 chapters · 1 hr 33 min reading

Begin reading

Chapters

  1. 01

    A bird's working day

    12 min
  2. 02

    Feathers and the body beneath

    12 min
  3. 03

    Making and controlling flight

    12 min
  4. 04

    Breathing and supporting activity

    12 min
  5. 05

    Food, digestion, and temperature

    12 min
  6. 06

    Seeing, hearing, and navigating

    12 min
  7. 07

    Eggs, nests, and parental work

    12 min
  8. 08

    Explain the bird you can observe

    9 min