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Independent: Dependent: Controlled: table #1: week 1 data. table #2: week 2 data.
 * My Question:** Are birds more scared of their reflections or a stuffed bird?
 * My hypothesis:** I think that birds will be scared of their reflections more than of the stuffed bird, because their reflections are more realistic than a stuffed bird.
 * Materials:** mirror, realistic stuffed bird, bird feeder, and bird seed.
 * Variables:**
 * 1) What the birds are scared of. ( the mirror, or the stuffed bird.)
 * 1) How many birds come to the feeder.
 * 2) Temperature.
 * 1) Type of feeder.
 * 2) Type of bird seed.
 * 3) Location of feeder.
 * Procedure:**
 * 1) Get materials.
 * 2) Set up mirror and stuffed bird near the bird feeder.
 * 3) Monitor bird activity near feeder.
 * 4) Post results on the wiki.
 * Research:** I put together a list of five species of birds that are known to display aggressive behavior towards their reflections and other birds. While doing this research I also learned that this behavior is more common during spring and early summer, when most birds claim their territory find a mate, lay eggs, and raise young. The birds are aggressive towards any birds that they consider competition or a threat to their young.
 * Timeline: **
 * Thursday 7/10/13: Got everything setup to do the experiment.
 * Sunday 7/13/13: No birds are at the feeder yet. I think it is because the birds forgot about it.
 * Thursday 7/17/13: No birds are showing up at the feeder at all. I thought that it might be because the birds forgot about the feeder, but it has been a week and still no birds. No seed has been eaten either so the problem isn't that the birds are coming when i'm not there, it's that the birds just aren't coming. Reasons that birds may not be coming: 1) they forgot about the feeder. 2) they are scared of the stuffed bird. 3) they are scared of the mirror. 4) they are scared of my siblings. Conclusion: I need to redesign my experiment.
 * Friday 7/18/13: I decided to take down the mirror and the stuffed bird to see if birds would come to the feeder. If they do I will put up the mirror tomorrow and record more data with the mirror.
 * Saturday 10/19/13: the bird are finally back! I watched the feeder for half an hour with no mirror or stuffed bird and recorded haw many birds there were. Then I did the same with just the mirror and just the stuffed bird.
 * Saturday 10/26/13: Watched the feeder with just the feeder, then with the stuffed bird, and then with the mirror for half an hour each.
 * Sunday 10/27/13: Did the same thing that i did yesterday and then i typed all of the data into this page.
 * Data:**
 * When |||||||||| Species ||  ||
 * Time || Where it was seen || Day || Blue Jay || Cardinal || Chickadee || Sparrow || Tufted Titmouse || Total ||
 * 1:50 - 2:20 || Seen at the feeder. || Saturday || 0 || 0 || 36 || 0 || 0 || 36 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Sunday || 13 || 8 || 39 || 4 || 16 || 80 ||
 * 2:20 - 2:50 || Seen with the stuffed bird. || Saturday || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Sunday || 2 || 0 || 5 || 0 || 1 || 8 ||
 * 3:00 - 3:30 || Seen with the mirror. || Saturday || 5 || 1 || 12 || 0 || 1 || 19 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Sunday || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * = When ||||||||||= Species ||=  ||
 * Time || Where it was seen || Day || Blue Jay || Cardinal || Chickadee || Sparrow || Tufted Titmouse || Total ||
 * 1:50 - 2:20 || Seen at the feeder. || Saturday || 3 || 1 || 65 || 2 || 28 || 99 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Sunday || 3 || 4 || 63 || 9 || 16 || 95 ||
 * 2:20 - 2:50 || Seen with the stuffed bird. || Saturday || 0 || 0 || 12 || 0 || 12 || 24 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Sunday || 1 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 4 || 8 ||
 * 3:00 - 3:30 || Seen with the mirror. || Saturday || 0 || 0 || 21 || 1 || 3 || 25 ||
 * ^  ||^   || Sunday || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Conclusion:** My data did not agree with my hypothesis. I thought that the birds would be more scared of their reflections because the reflections are more realistic, but the birds were more scared of the stuffed bird. I think that this happened because the birds thought that their reflections were just other birds so they weren't scared of them. The stuffed bird was not as realistic and I think that this scared the birds away because they didn't know what it was.

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