four walls, only two. In the center
of the house, there must be two
spaces with the same size so you
can put the food and the birds
can eat it. The house must have
a roof that covers the food. After
the house is constructed, you can
paint it with bright paints, so birds
are attracted to the house. When
everything is finished, hang the
house high on a tree. Finally, just
record the data. You can record
data by the weight; you can start
with 50 grams. Record the data
weekly.
Data Analysis and
Conclusions:
If we put the same amount of
wheat and white bread in the
same location, then birds will
prefer wheat bread because of
what it is made of, which are
seeds, and birds love to eat
seeds. The experiment rejected
our hypothesis because birds
actually ate more white bread.
Birds eat more white bread than
wheat bread. Even though at the
beginning of the experiment
birds ate more wheat bread, the
next two weeks they ate more
white bread; they ate about 20
or 30 grams per week. We think
this happened because of the
taste of the bread and its color.
White bread has a lighter color
than the wheat bread. Our white
bread was kind of yellow, which
we think attracted birds more
than the brown, boring, wheat
bread color. We really thought
birds would be more attracted to
wheat bread because of the seed,
but apparently, birds preferred
white bread which has no seeds.
Something we could have done
to improve our experiment was
to put the house in a more visible
place and to paint it with lots of
colors, not just three, and that the
colors were much brighter. These
results have proved us wrong. We
thought birds liked more wheat
bread, but they like more white
bread. Now we know more about
this topic and know what birds
prefer to eat. A new question
for a next experiment could be:
Does the color of the bird feeder
determine the amount of white
bread birds eat?
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