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 * //__FINAL PROJECT__//**

Basically, this project is about which locations around my house and neighborhood will work the best as far as getting birds to eat the food. I will put four bowls of food in four different locations to see which one will be the most empty by day five.

Procedure: Put four plastic/paper bowls filled with one cup of food in each in four different locations... One location for each bowl of food. One in a tree, One on the ground on some rocks near my house. One on the latis fence made out of wood. There is another bowl of food sitting on the electricity box thing. After four days of waiting, I will see which feeder has the least amount of food in it so that I can tell which location is favorited. The food is the exact same brand for every location. At the end of the four days you will put the remaining amount of food in a cup to find out how much left there is. You will subtract this number of seeds left from the amount seeds started with (1 cup) and that will be the amount of how much seed they ate in that feeder. Which ever cup that birds have eaten the most out of are obviously the most popular to the birds.

Hypothesis: The location I think will be most preffered to the birds is the cup of food in the tree. I think it is a great location because it is off the ground and in a part of the neighborhood that is very surrounded with birds. I am pretty sure there will be such little feed eaten in the cup on the electricity box that I won't be able to tell if ANY was eaten. Birds don't know what electricity boxes are and they sure don't look that pleasant to begin with.

Independent Variables: The indendent variables are basically the locations. Locations are the things that are being changed/manipulated to see if the dependent variables are being affected.

Dependent Variables: The dependent variables are basically the birds and whether the birds are going to like the independent variables or not.

Results:


 * || Electric Box || On the ground || Wooden Fence || In a tree ||
 * Amount left || 1 cup || 1 cup || 1/3 of a cup || 5/6 of a cup ||
 * Amount eaten || 0 || 0 || 2/3 of a cup || 1/6 of a cup ||



The results of the Electric box location, and the on the ground location aren't exactly correct because I do not know what amount was eaten from them. There was either none or so little to tell how much there was eaten from those two locations so I just wrote zero.

Possible Problems: I was unable to check on the bird feeder often because I was at my dad's house for some of the time this experiment was actively being engaged. Squirrels live in my neighborhood and they might have eaten some of the food. I actually highly bet squirrels didn't eat any, but it is a possibility. The day I took the food down, it was very windy so some food might have spilled out. Maybe during the experiment birds accidentily spilt a lot of the food. A cup, half a cup, a fourth of a cup, and a third were the only measurements I had. I felt it was hard to get truthful information for the very small eaten locations because there was still almost all of the food left, that I can't even tell if any was eaten. If I had more exact measurements, and I knew there were no food spills at all, it would've been a slightly better experiment.

Conclusion: My original stated hyothesis was not supported by the collected results and information. During the middle of the project I ended up thinking the fence feeder would be most eaten and it was. But that unfortunately cannot be my hypothesis because I had already stated an original hypothesis. Two bird feeders that I was going to do as well before tipped over, which really isn't good because I was looking forward to seeing what the rock location would've been like. It was basically on a really big huge rock.