animals also live in different types of homes. Below is a free downloadable worksheet kids can enjoy that invites them to ...

Download worksheet (pdf - 498kb ... Australians love swimming in the water. Our water birds do too. Let's learn how to live with some of Australia’s biggest and boldest birds.

Birds, for example, can learn to flee when neighbors cluck “hawk!” — or, more precisely, emit a distress call. The fairy wren, a small Australian songbird, is not born knowing the ...

At least one species of bird—the superb fairy wren, a beautiful black and blue species found on Australia’s east coast—can learn new alarm calls without directly experiencing a threat ...

That suggests the birds learn to recognize those calls. In the lab, the team played the alarm call from a thornbill or a synthetic alarm call for 10 fairy-wrens. The birds didn’t respond to the ...