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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. I think it could be done but not using the normal process. They would know the local streams, lakes, and marshes. Who would write it and how much would it cost?

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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

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Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish. They are excellent science writers, patiently explaining the physiological processes involved in deep diving in penguins, seals, and human.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. This paper, which was cited in the paper we just discussed, conducted the relevant experiments: Addison, Jason A., The “results” section summarizes the outcomes. and Antony W. ” The Auk 128.2 2011): 265-272.

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Pigeons have tiny compasses in their heads

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Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. But early in the process of learning about the Efe I made a foray into the literature available in the 1980s of orientation and navigation, and this included the literature on birds. Le-Qing Wu and J.