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11 FUN FACT
Ancient Romans ate flamingo
tongues and peacock brains.

Go on safari at your local river, with our nature-spotting

guide. Keep emailing us at: g2kids@guardian.co.uk

Sudoku
Fill the spaces with numbers from 1 to 9 so that
every row, column and 3x3 box contains all the
numbers from 1 to 9.
Your joke
1 4 5 9
Where does the queen chicken live?
3 5 9 1 4 7 Cluckingham Palace
Mollie Short, 7
3 5
1 5 6 3 You and your pet
Name: Tess.
7 8 6 Age: 6.
Breed: Golden
3 7 2 9 retriever.

What am I?
Favourite food:
6 4 Sausages.
Likes: Chasing
7 3 1 9 8 5 deer.
Can you identify these different
Dislikes: finding
ways of getting around?
9 5 2 1 out that deer are a
For answers see tomorrow’s G2 lot faster than her.
Morgan, 10, and Meg, 7

How to... Your review

spot river wildlife
Rivers are brilliant places to
experience your own local
safari, with many spectacles to
be seen, from trouts to voles
or maybe even a
kingfisher. Grab
a grownup (useful
Mallard duck for carrying heavy
things like a picnic
blanket!) and head
off to the river.
What you need
• Binoculars
• Notepad
• Pens and pencils
What to look for
• Fish Your river will be full of
them, though you might not see
them all from the bank. Try and
find a bridge where you can look
straight down into the water.
Look out for the shadows swim-
ming through
the water,
small white
herons. The
easiest birds
be pike with sharp teeth to see on your
or a brown trout which local river are
can be recognised likely to be
by the dark spots graceful white
all along its swans and mallard
back. If you ducks. Moorhens
choose and coots are easy to
the right spot and you can tell them
spot and Heron apart by looking at the colours
you are lucky you on their heads – coots have a
may get a chance to see white patch on their head and
the spectacular sight of moorhens have a red beak.
salmon leaping upstream
to get back to their • Other animals
spawning grounds. and plants
Have a look in the
•Birds Herons will be watch- plants by the side of your river.
ing for the fish too. They are There could be frogs or mice or
grey and stand very still – they water voles – and taking a quick
probably look like a shadow or dip every so often. See how
a cloud to the fish in the water. many animals you can find, and
Staying still yourself for a little how many types of flower.
while is probably the best way to
see shy animals – although you When you are back on dry land,
don’t have to gobble them up take part in the survey at
like herons! If you live near ourrivers.org.uk, which
Mr Majeika Vanishes
by Humphrey Carpenter
This book is very
good. I give it four
stars. It is about
when Mr Majeika
(a teacher who is also
a wizard) vanishes
and it’s up to Pete,
Jody and Thomas to
find him. My favourite
bit is when Wilhelmina
Worlock is sent to
prison. My least favourite bit is when
Jody is turned bad and becomes horrid
like Hamish Bigmore.
This book is a bit funny and not
boring. I enjoyed it and would read it
again and again. I have already read it
more than once!
Robbie, 6
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