Adams+bird+project

__**Birds and color**__

**__Question :__**
Will the color of the birdhouse affect what birdhouse it will go to? Do bird see in color? Do squirrels see in color? Are squirrels attracted to colors?

**__Hypothesis:__**
I think that the birds will go to the birdhouse that has a brighter color because they can see it better.

**__Procedures:__**

 * 1) I will put up three bird house that are all different colors but the same model
 * 2) I measure how much the bird feeders can hold in cups and mark off where each cup ends and starts
 * 3) I put them outside in three different locations that are fairly close together
 * 4) I check each day and see how much they have eaten
 * 5) After a week I will take them down and compare the results and put them in a graph

__**Info:**__
Not only do birds see in color, they see ultra-violet light too. humans see 3 primary colors (and mixtures of them) such as red, green, blue. birds see this, AND ulta-violet that people cant' see. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080229075835AAFhOs2 Research suggests, that the squirrel has "dichromatic" color vision, and therefore can see in color. http://www.squirrels.org/faq.html#Q2 another project http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/SOAR/SciProj2006/Whitney6.html I couldn't find any information about what color squirrels are attracted to.

__**Variables:**__
Independent: the independent variable is what kind birdseeds we use dependent:where we put the birdfeeders

__**Table and graph:**__

 * || Day || Day1 || Day2 || Day3 || Day4 || Day5 || Day6 || Day7 ||
 * Color ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * = Blue ||=  ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||   ||   ||
 * yellow ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * brown ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

__**trouble that happened:**__
the squirrels smashed my bird feeders and scarred away all the birds the birds did find my feeder before the squirrels did. __**Conclusion:**__

my conclusion is that my experiment failed because squirrels attacked it but i found a person who did a project that was really close to mine.