The Northern Cardinal

By: Sam

About the Author I like to play and watch

football. Sometimes meand my family like towatch TV. My favoritefood is shrimp scampiwith shredded up garlicand my least favorite foodis spinach from a can. Ilike to collect baseball,football, and old soccercards. I sometimes like tocollect those pop tabs onpop cans. I have a wholenecklace full of them. Iwant to write about thisanimal because cardinalsare my favorite animal.

Who am I? The Northern Cardinalʼspopulation has gone up in thelast 200 years . Itʼs habitatchanges because of people. Asong to the Northern Cardinalis actually a signal to where tobring food to. When the maleNorthern Cardinal sees itʼsreflection it will constantly tryto fight it off. Sometimes thecardinal might run into a treebecause it was just trying tofight its reflection off.

The Early Years The Northern Cardinal

stays with its mom for oneyear and then leaves.During that one year thebaby cardinalʼs motherteaches the baby cardinalhow to fly, make nests,get food, and sing. Thecardinal really doesnʼt gettaught but just kind oflooks at what itʼs mom isdoing and it just copies it.

Habitat Sweet Habitat

The NorthernCardinal usuallylives in park likeurban areas.

Whatʼs on The Menu

The main thing aNorthern Cardinaleats is earth worms,berries, and insects.

Making Tracks

These tracks arefound on trees byspecial lights.Sometimes they liketo go in the snow.The tracks look likeits bones its justclaws and bones.

Simply Irresistible

A cardinals habitat ischanged by people. NOWAY! Did you know aNorthern Cardinal candisappear if their habitatis lost but if they find anew habitat they staythere for 3 years thenthey move again.

Where in the World

The NorthernCardinal is usuallyfound in thesouthern part orpark like urbanareas.

Did You Know? 1. A female bird sings

better than a male. 2. The population rises

200 every year. 3. The Northern

Cardinal sings tunes. 4. Itʼs the record for

popularity as a statebird.

Book list (acknowledging)

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j6lMPeK9I/AAAAAAAAE2w/MbIfhukC8y8/Cardinal+feathers.JPG picture 7http://www.cardinallearningzone.com/cardinal_facts.jpg picture 8http://www.wildnatureimages.com/images 2/060308-105..jpg picture 9