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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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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. In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.”

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

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Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism. This is the title for the person who lives for both literature and nature. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.

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The Bird 10K Project

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With about 10,500 living species, birds constitute the most speciose class of terrestrial vertebrates and are adapted to and distributed throughout most terrestrial and shallow aquatic biomes on our planet. … …The phylogeny of birds has been one of the most challenging vertebrate groups to decipher.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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Guide to the Birds of Honduras Translation Project

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He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. Robert (back row, far left) with a class of bird guides he taught. Robert arrived in Honduras with Peace Corps in 1993 and has been a resident ever since. But there’s still something missing.

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Western Snowy Plover

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Then, in one of my freshmen science classes, there was a discussion about extinct species, which then lead to the topic of threatened, or endangered species, and what we could do to help out.

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Beyond Birding

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list-servs, newsgroups, photo-sharing… Oh and better concentrate in science classes as you also need to be a part-time scientist cum biologist with a complete grasp of the concepts of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA Analysis and just in case why not tag on a short course in stable isotope analysis?

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