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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

10,000 Birds

In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. Although the class focused “on birds, students also pick up some botany, geology, hydrology, forestry, fisheries, meteorology, and wildlife management,” students also learned “the names, habits, and importance of local animals and plants.”

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

For that you can blame a cowardly food industry and a cynical consumer movement, willing to sacrifice lives to further its antinuclear agenda. 5, 2009 The writer worked from 1978 to 1990 at Consumers Union as a health and science writer for Consumer Reports Magazine. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. I have provided plenty of facts.

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