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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.” And many become birders.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today.

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DDT, oil spills, and a wall.

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The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. The current administration can now start construction on any of the public lands along the border with no concern for habitats, ecosystems, or wildlife.

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PSA

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You need to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Domestic animal shelters don’t normally take wildlife and if they do it’s rare. These animals support ecosystems all over the globe where there are c3 and c4 class grasses, but not enough people support them. I operate as a permitted rehab in Florida.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 5)

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Magpie-larks build rather nice-looking nests that I probably could not make even after attending a pottery class. This is one of three bird species listed as “Threatening animals” on a website of the University of Australia Woolonggong – apparently, during breeding season they will swoop and defend areas around nests.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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What extraordinary birds penguins are: physically, they remind us of ourselves, so we think we understand their behaviors, but, as the authors say, “their private life is as complex and mysterious as that of any wild animal.” Dragan]: Europe’s Birds: An Identification Guide , by Hume, Still, Swash, and Harrop is a photographic guide.

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I Remember Elephants

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Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. The animal slowly walked away from us, stopping every now and then to check on our behaviour.

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