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• December 2015 eBirder of the Month Challenge
  December eBirder of the Month Challenge 1 December 2015 Great Gray Owl Great Gray Owl This month’s eBirder of the month challenge, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, focuses on documenting your eBird sightings using photos and audio. As announced in early November, we are ecstatic to have our Media Upload tool available across eBird—a... View Article
• Maintaining your Classroom Bird Feeder
  Photo by Janet Bass MAINTAINING YOUR CLASSROOM FEEDER Students hang a classroom feeder. Photo by Kara Benson. Students hang a classroom feeder. Photo by Kara Benson. Hanging a bird feeder outside your classroom window not only provides food to your feathered friends, but also engages students in observing and learning about birds and their behaviors.... View Article
• 7 Things You Can Do to Help Songbirds If You’ve Just Watched The Messenger
  The Messenger is a 2015 documentary about the problems that migratory songbirds face and the scientists that are trying to help them. The movie is fascinating and beautifully filmed (read our review), but one thing it doesn’t do is address what can be done about the problems. It’s an intentional omission on the part of the filmmakers—as if... View Article
• New Documentary Is A Wake-Up Call About The Tidal Wave Of Extinctions
  The voice of Cornell’s Dr. Christopher Clark is among the first you’ll hear when the documentary Racing Extinction airs worldwide on December 2. The film is a fast-paced exposé of illegal wildlife trafficking and the devastating ripple effects of fossil-fuel dependence, all of which leads to one conclusion—that humans are destroying the planet—and the clock... View Article