Friday, May 6, 2011

Dandy lion

The dandelion is yellow and green there are two kinds of them one of them is like a flower and the other just is bulb like and is covered with seeds and and when the wind blows it carrys the seeds to make more dandelions they are and exotic species from france.They came over on ships when the french came over and it has slowly worked there way over moutain ranges and plains and are now spread across the united states.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

bird 3

i saw this bird when i was outside cleaning the snow and the bird i saw was a unpland buzzard. This is the largest buzzard, though it is equaled in size by the North American Ferruginous Hawk. The total length is 23-26 in and wingspan is 57-64 in. Weight is about 3 lbs on average. with both pale and dark morphs. Similar in plumage to others buzzards. Pale morph has lightly marked whitish head, nape and underparts with large brown spots irregularly distributed in upper breast and abdomen. Flanks and sides of the belly dark, tail with greyish centre and dark sides, tail bands prominently dark, with heavier sub-terminal band. Tarsi is fully (or at least three-quarters) feathered brown. Dark morph bird has the upper parts, lower body and wing coverts solid dark, with the flight feather pattern similar to pale morph.
If you notice a flock of buzzards gathered in one spot, particularly in rural areas and in or near roadways, this often signals that a dead animal is in the vicinity. Buzzards eat roadkill--the carcasses of animals that were hit by cars. Buzzards are not picky eaters and will eat just about any dead animal--possums, squirrels, rabbits, deer, domestic animals and even skunks (although they will leave the scent pouch of a skunk intact). When buzzards have a choice between fresh roadkill or a decayed animal carcass, however, they will always choose the fresh kill. There young is called chicks there only predators are other birds and humans.

Friday, April 8, 2011

bird 2

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It is, on average, the heaviest eagle in the world, at about 11 to 20 lb. , but often lags behind the harpy egale.The typical size range  33 to 43 in long and the wingspan 77 to 120 in.The Steller's Sea-eagle mainly feeds on fish . Favored prey include salmon. The name of there young is chicks. The birds body is covered in feathers and the feathers colors are brown and white it has a thick beak.Threr main predators are humans and human development.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Mammal 4


The Siberian chipmunk is a forest animal. With needle-pointed claws, it is an excellent climber but it lives predominantly on the ground. They live in lodges that are constructed on the ground.ous. They feed on vegetables, conifer seeds, and nuts of dicotyledonous plants. They feed on buds of trees, shrubs, mushrooms, berries, field crops, as well as wheat, oats, and buckwheat. Chipmunks also attack insects, young birds, and lizards.Its fur is brown they also have a tail that is similair to a mouse or rat. Its total length from head to tail is 18 to 25 cm  of which one third is occupied by its tail. The weight of an adult Siberian chipmunk varies according to the season but normally, an adult Siberian chipmunk weighs about 50 to 150 grams . When compared to its other relatives such as the red squirrel it is rather smaller in size.
Mustelids, cats, and birds are the main predators of the Siberian chipmunk

Friday, March 25, 2011

insect 2



Even among the diminutive spiders in this family, this is a very small species with a body length excluding legs of just 3 mm. It is usually found motionless on its delicate web , built on the trunk of a tree, where its mottled body and banded legs, allied to its tiny size, make it very difficult to see giving it the common name invisible spider.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Bird 1





The Siberian Crane also known as the Siberian White Crane or the Snow Crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are distinctive among the cranes, adults are nearly all snowy white, except for their black primary feathers that are visible in flight and a naked red face, with two breeding populations in the Arctic tundra of western and eastern Russia. They eastern populations migrate during winter to China while the western population winters in Iran and formerly, in India. Among the cranes, they make the longest distance migrations. Their populations, particularly those in the western range have declined drastically in the 20th century due to hunting along their migration routes and habitat degradation. The world population was estimated in 2010 at about 3200 birds, mostly belonging to the eastern population with about 95% of them wintering in the Poyang lake basin in China, a habitat that may be altered by the Three Gorges Dam.Height is about  5 ft tall and they weigh about 13 pounds All cranes are omnivorous. Siberian Cranes eat a wide variety of food items. On the breeding grounds in spring, they eat cranberries, rodents, fish and insects.
The traditional migratory and wintering habitats of this species are under constant pressure from the demands of the growing human population.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Mammal 3

The polar bear is the largest land carnivore a male weighs around 750-1500 lbs it's the largest of the bear species the females are only half that size there main food consists of seal they don't have predators except human hunters they have a thickk coat of white fur. It is large and stocky. It has an elongated neck and small head. The name of there young is cubs. there body length is  6.6 to 10 feet.