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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. .” And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses.

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It’s Baby Bird Week on 10,000 Birds!

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Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. Can you handle the cuteness? But, just like with human babies, you have to admit that sometimes you anticipate fawning over a baby bird and instead nearly end up retching instead. We will have some of those less attractive baby birds as well.

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The Collared Finchbill

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And of course, there is the expected paper characterizing the mitochondrial genome of Collared Finchbill. Fortunately for them (though less so for the cuckoo), in one experiment they ejected 100% of all cuckoo model eggs. My mother is dead already, but she might have pointed out that she told me so.

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Not just for the birds

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Of course, I always wake up hoping for a lifer or FOY bird. If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. Sometimes it is the experience that makes them memorable. But any birder can tell you that a bad day birding is better than a good day almost anywhere else.

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Review of Feathers

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Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Of all of the sections of the book I definitely learned the most from Evolution.

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Fledgling Barred Warbler

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Of course, that latter name could be applied to most of the Old World warblers, Jochen’s deluded thoughts about which warblers are best notwithstanding , but it particularly works for the young of the Barred Warbler. When the adult male bird has more than one mate, the femaleincubates the eggs and tends to the chicks alone.

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The Terns of Tern Island

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Around 100,000 of these terns breed on almost every available space on the island, and walking through groups of them is a deafening and quite painful experience. Black Noddy ( Anous minutus ) Everyone’s favourite tern is of course the beautify White Tern , famous for nesting in the most lunatic of locations such as on bare branches.

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