experiments
Do birds
in Zasqua
prefer to
eat corn or
banana?
By Santiago Pailhé,
Luna Granados,
Cristina Mestre
We have studied about birds
throughout the bimester, in
Science class. We are very
interested in this project because
we really like birds, they’re
very beautiful and interesting.
For example, they have a lot of
extraordinary
characteristics
and adaptations, like their
muscular and circulatory system.
We want to know the birds’
eating preferences. This project
is important to us because we
are the future of Colombia,
so we need to learn about our
birds to preserve them, and by
knowing their species and type
of food we can preserve them.
We are very happy to learn
about what birds eat, because
we had that question during the
bimester, especially when we
were studying how the beak tells
the type of food the bird eats. We
know that on Zasqua birds eat
corn and banana, and we want
to see which the birds prefer
between those two.
Question: Do birds in
Zasqua prefer to eat
corn or banana?
Hypothesis:
For this experiment was if we
put corn and banana in the same
bird feeder in Zasqua, then birds
will eat more corn than banana
because the banana will ripen
very fast and less Zasqua birds
will like it.
Experiment Design and
Procedure
1. Plan the materials we will
need to build the bird feeder,
2. Plan how we will do it in a
paper.
3. Build the bird feeder with the
previous plantation of the
structure and materials we
needed. The bird feeder had a
base, then four stick columns
attached to each other by
other two sticks, and a roof
made of two pieces of wood
attached together. The base
and the roof were covered
with Contact. At the borders,
there were little pieces of
wood, except on one border.
4. Create the chart in which
we will record the data of
our experiment. Writing the
variable, the days or weeks
you would collect the data,
only the weight.
Data Table
Data Analysis and Conclusions
6 / Zasqua Jounal 2017
(which were wood, Contact,
nails, and a hammer).