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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

10,000 Birds

In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. What was the response to your Birding article in 2018? But his class was only one of two in the U.S.,

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A Stick! A Bird! A Tree!–Books on Nature for Parents & Kids

10,000 Birds

Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics. Page Street Publishing, 2018 (formerly Birding for the Curious , 2015), 176 p., © 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal.