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Feathered Feeders

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Students investigate variation in bird beaks and the interrelationships of form and function by classifying birds with similar beak shapes, inferring about the possible bird foods based on beak shapes, and locating and identifying possible bird foods in

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scientific classification, taxonomy, birds

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birds, classifying, science
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K - 9th
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Science
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