Feathers First Worksheet Page 3
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4• Have the students complete the chart (individually or in pairs).
(Inferring)
Bird
Habitat/characteristics
Evidence from text
Kiwi
nocturnal
“night games”, “floodlit by the
moon”
flightless
“special sloping rows of seats for
the flightless”, “not all of us birds
can fly”
lives in forest; self-
wants to turn forest into stadium
centred
Tūī
loud call
“got the loudest voice”
leader
“Let’s vote on this.”
Kea
mischievous
“bendy car aerials”, “rubbish bins
full of fast food”, “fun park”
diurnal
“kea shrieks in the middle of the
day”
Pūkeko
lives in swamps; self-
“flood the forest and turn it into a
centred
bog”
diurnal
“pūkeko and kea shrieks in the
middle of the day”
Weka
flightless
“that includes you, Weka”, “Hear,
hear!” (agreeing with Kiwi that not
all birds can fly)
Hawk
can fly
“high-diving boards at the top of
the kauri tree”, “Most of us can”
diurnal
“silly night-games idea”
aggressive
“have you noticed just how big my
beak is?”, “See my beak?” “boy
skydivers like Hawk”
Kererū
likes eating
“stuff ourselves”
can fly; lazy
“go to sleep on a strong branch”
Kākāpō
flightless
“new track built”, “thundering past”
large
“heavy”, “thundering”
slow
“That’s not fair!”
nocturnal
“us nocturnal birds”
Sparrow
plentiful
“You’re just a common sparrow”,
“there are more sparrows”, “lots of
sparrow votes”
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