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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” Think about it for a minute.

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The Pacific Wren of the San Francisco Botanical Garden

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The place was full of parents with toddlers, kindergarten school groups, and walkers like us. Only, wait, did Winter Wrens live in California? Nest-building must have been on their agenda, for they hopped this way and that with delicate moss bits hanging from their tiny beaks. Still, a lifebird was on the way. Pacific Wren.

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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. Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. … Extinction is forever.

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