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WindWise Education

What is Wind Power's Risk to Birds?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
How is risk determined? Through the use of a reading passage, individuals or groups learn about bird interactions with man made structures along with wind turbines. Pupils use information from the second reading passage to conduct an...
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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Adaptations – Designs for Survival

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
What's the difference between behavioral adaptations and physical adaptations? Learn about the various ways that organisms adapt to their environment with a worksheet about the creatures of the Hudson River.
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about birds, as well as several pictures.
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PBS

Pbs: Champion Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
The PBS video series "The Life of Birds" is accompanied with this site. There are articles about several aspects of birds and their behavior. This one chronicles the highest, fastest, and most extreme birds. There are lots of examples.
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NASA

Nasa: Space Place: Tired Travelers

For Students 3rd - 7th
Using actual NASA radar, students discover how bird migration works.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Tundra Animals

For Students 2nd - 8th
Explore this comprehensive resource on the birds and mammals of the tundra. This resource features information such as diet, class, order, size, habitat, conservation range and the like.
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Brant

For Students 9th - 10th
The brant is a small aquatic goose found in the Arctic and Alaska during its northern migration and as far south as Mexico and North Carolina on its southern migration. This is an information page about the brant.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Wetlands

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Did you know that wetlands are frequently used as resting stops for migrating birds? This is just one of the many interesting facts found within this educational resource. This site features information on the characteristics, types,...
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Piping Plover

For Students 9th - 10th
The piping plover migrates over much of North America into Mexico. The species is endangered and threatened in Canada and in the United States. Facts about the piping plover are presented here.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Canada Goose

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia defines and describes the Canada goose. Content includes a look at this bird's characteristics, behavior, food, migration pattern, reproduction, and environmental status.
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Semipalmated Sandpiper

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact sheet giving information about the semipalmated sandpiper, a shorebird that migrates between the Canadian Arctic and South America.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Ghorbat Kinship

For Students 9th - 10th
The term "Ghorbat" is applied to several non-food-producing, itinerant populations of fairly low status throughout the Middle East and even beyond, in parts of formerly Soviet Central Asia and the Balkans. These peripatetic populations...
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Robin (Erithacus Rubecula)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and a fact card about the robin, as distinct from the American robin, which is actually a thrush. Explains where robins are found, their physical characteristics, diet, migration behavior, mating, and predators.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Eskimo Curlew

For Students 3rd - 5th
The Eskimo curlew, which migrated between the Northwest Territories and Argentina is believed to be extinct, although there are occasional reports of possible sightings. The reasons for its decline and a drawing of one can be found here.
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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Hummingbird

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information on the hummingbird, as well as several vivid photos and a video.

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