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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. It was later re-published on the All About Birds website.) In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” with binoculars, field notebooks, smartphones, and field guides” looking for birds. Think about it for a minute.

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The Pacific Wren of the San Francisco Botanical Garden

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Of course, my eyes were always peeled for birds, and we had already spotted a Pied-billed Grebe , Allen’s Hummingbird , and more. Only, wait, did Winter Wrens live in California? The bird’s song was lovely, but we wanted to actually see the wren as well. Still, a lifebird was on the way. Pacific Wren.

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Back from the West!

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And, let me tell you, it was an amazing trip with gorgeous scenery, lots of cool mammals, and, of course, a whole big bunch of birds! This Pine Grosbeak was just one of the cool birds that came in to take advantage of the feeder. The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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There are only approximately 23 million people in the whole country, which is about 10 million less than the state of California. The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865. Preface,p.xxiv.

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