Description: Follow the adventures of Agnes and her mother, Professor Octavia Peregrine, as they race to find the Pink-headed Duck—before Colonel Pittsnap does!

  Activities:

• Have students draw and color in some of the colorful birds found in this book: Pink-headed Duck*, Blue-footed Booby, Pheasant, Grouse (for example: Greater Sage-Grouse*), Great Hornbill, Golden-fronted Leafbird, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Snake Bird (Anhinga), Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. The ones in bold are linked to their species account on the Lab's All About Birds Onine Bird Guide. (*Indicates those species that are threatened or endangered).

• Discuss other endangered species, such as the Peregrine Falcon, Whooping Crane, and Ivory-billed Woodpecker—see web sites below.

Questions about the book:

1. Which bird call “pierced the jungle air of Borneo”? (Golden-fronted Leafbird)

2. Who made this sound (a bird)? “Chaca-cha-ca! Wick, wick, wick! (Sulfur-crested Cockatoo)

3. Where do Agnes and her mother go in search of the rare Pink-headed Duck? (the Himalayas)

4. What did they do with the Pink-headed Duck in the end? (Set it free, and the duck "paddled...to reach flying speed...and winged its way over the horizon")

➢ Conservation success stories

➢ Modern extinctions