A Bird-Brained Science Experiment

The lesson: Using the Scientific Experiment to observe, hypothesize, experiment, gather results and conclude which types of bird beaks will prefer different types of bird seed.

This experiment is ongoing. Will report back when we have enough data.

The experiment:

The testing: We are filming the experiment with a wildlife camera, to remove the variable of birds not eating the seeds due to human interference.

Stay tuned!

UPDATE from Grandfrog: It should be noted that we filmed over 325 observations, over 2 days and nights. Based on my statistical knowledge, this is far beyond a statistically significant sample size, thus some inferences (not conclusions) may be drawn. Each film clip was considered an independent observation, meaning that some birds that stayed for multiple shots, would be counted each as an observation. The rationale behind this is that, by doing so, the relative time spent, per each animal/bird, would be representative of what we were measuring, that being desired food. Each time an animal ate another bite, however, this was not recorded as an independent observation.

While our experiment was designed for birds, squirrels (two), many rabbits and one skunk also enjoyed our experiment!