Here's a welcome alternative to the camel adaptations song! This one focuses on birds' beaks and how they are adapted to eat different things and features some of the most adorable paperbag puppets ever captured on screen!
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Great for elementary science lessons for grades 2-5 when you're teaching about form and function, and the external structures that function to keep animals alive and help them grow and reproduce.
Lyrics:
I got the right beak, the right beak to reach it
got the right beak, the right beak to eat it
got the right beak, the right beak to reach it
Got the right beak, the right beak
If you want to catch a fish
You might want a beak like this
A great big pelican scoop, to catch a batch of fresh fish soup!
My beak is wide and deep inside, it's quite the innovation
You need a meal, and here's the deal: use your adaptations!
Chorus
How'd you like to eat some bugs?
There's plenty down in that mud
If you've got a spoonbill, you can get your fill
Just grab a hunk of that muddy gunk,
And sift out those crustaceans
That fancy snout can strain them out, what an adaptation!
Chorus
(D) Every beak,
(Am) can help you eat
(C) a particular treat
(G) ain't that sweet?
Let us feast!
Buried down in that sand, There's got to be some clams
And this oyster catcher's bill is good to dig and drill
I jab and jam I nab that clam in his habitation
I poke and pry and grab that guy, oh, what an adaptation!
Chorus
