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Instructional Resources
Key
Resources:
Migration
Basics
Denali
Golden Eagles and Migration
Golden
Eagle Fact Sheet. 2000.
Carol McIntyre (available in PDF)
Secrets
of Animal Navigation (National Geographic, June 1991)
Migration
of Birds (USFWS / Dept. of Interior)
Climate
Data Sources, select by region follow links to monthly averages
Climate
Prediction Center, Temperature and Precipitation links
to maps, grpahs and tables
Blank
maps of the United States
Web
Pages:
Alaska
Bird Observatory (http://www.alaskabird.org)
"Ask
an expert" - Science mentors to which students can address
questions (http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska/science.html)
Bird
Migration Ecology, University of Lund, Sweden.
(http://orn-lab.ekol.lu.se/birdmigration)
The
Bird Site, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
(http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/birds/)
Birdnet
(http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/index.html)
Birds
of Denali (http://www.nps.gov/dena/home/resources/wildlife/birdweb/
index/homebirdpage.htm) Denali National Park and Preserve page
includes species, habitat, and research.
Boreal
Partners in Flight
(http://www.absc.usgs.gov/research/bpif/bpif.html)
Canadian
Landbird Monitoring Program: (http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/birds/pdf/strat_e.pdf)
Canadian
Migration Monitoring Network
(http://www.bsc-eoc.org/national/cmmn.html)
Christmas
Bird Count (http://birdsource.cornell.edu/cbc/)
Earth
Navigators, PBS Nature, (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/navigators/)
Glossary
of Avian Terms (http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/avian/avian.htm)
Golden
Eagles in a Changing Landscape, The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research
Group (http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/eagles.htm)
Introduction
to the Aves, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
(http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/birdintro.html)
Journey
North (http://www.learner.org/jnorth)
The
K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook (http://wings.avkids.com)
MSN
Encarta - "Animal Migration" (http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761557464)
National
Audubon Society (http://www.audubon.org/)
National
Audubon Watchlist, Conservation of Birds (http://www.audubon.org/bird/watch)
Wild
Wings - tracking snow geese on the net (http://north.audubon.org/how.html)
National
Audubon Bird Migration Facts: http://north.audubon.org/facts.html
The
Nature Conservancy, Wings of the America Project (http://nature.org/international/specialinitiatives/wings/)
Oil
spills and Birds (http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/oilpl/oil.html)
Pesticide
Poisoning and Raptors in western Canada (http://www.ecoinfo.org/env_ind/region/bepesticide/bepesticide.htm)
Sun
& Moon Data Center, US Naval Observatory
(http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/) Use Healy, AK
Using
Radar to Study Bird Migration (http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/birdrad/)
US Fish
and Wildlife Service
USFWS
Bald Eagle Information http://midwest.fws.gov/eagle/population/
Conserving
Wildlife and Habitat (http://www.fws.gov/conwh.html)
Office
of Migratory Bird Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service (http://migratorybirds.fws.gov)
Sister
Shorebird, US Fish and Wildlife Service (http://sssp.fws.gov/sssp.html)
US Geological
Survey
Natural
history information on forest and rangeland birds (http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1998/forest/history.htm#aegit)
North
American Bird Banding Program: (http://www.pwrc.nbs.gov/bbl/)
Migration
of Birds
(http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/orthrdata/migratio/migratio.htm)
US
Shorebird Conservation Plan (http://www.manomet.org/USSCP/files.htm)
Wake
Forest Albatross project (http://www.wfu.edu/albatross/activity.htm)
Western
Regional Climate Center
Climate
and Weather Terms Glossary, Western Regional Climate Center
(http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/ams/glossary.html)
Alaska
Climate Summaries, Western Regional Climate Center (http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmak.html)
Use McKinley Park.
The
Wilderness Society’s Arctic Refuge Migratory Bird Initiative (http://www.wilderness.org/backyard/amazing/mission.htm)
Wildlife
Notebook Series, Alaska Department of Fish and Game (http://www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/FISH.GAME/notebook/notehome.htm)
Distance
Calculator
(http://www.nau.edu/~cvm/latlongdist.html)
Definitions
of Latitude and Longitude
(http://www.cogtech.com/EXPLORER/lat-long.htm)
Great
circle route distance calculator
(http://www.best.com/~williams/gccalc.htm)
NOVA:
Search for longitude.
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude)
Pythagorean
Theorem
(http://sunsite.ubc.ca/LivingMathematics/V001N01/ UBCExamples/Pythagoras/pythagoras.html)
Using
Radar to Study Bird Migration
(http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/birdrad/)
Books:
Alerstan,
T. 1993. Bird Migration. Cambridge University Press. 420 pp.
Anderson,
C. Alaska's Magnificent Eagles. 1997. Alaska Geographic.
Archer,
P. 1995. How Birds Migrate. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg PA.
Berthold,
P. 1993. Bird Migration, a general survey. Oxford University Press.
239 pp.
Berthold,
P. Editor. 1991. Orientation in Birds. Birkhauser Verlag, Boston.
Cooper,
A.C. 1992. Eagles, Hunters of the Sky, A Story and Activities.
Denver Museum of Natural History. Robts. Rinehart Publishers.
Niwat, CO.
Donnelly
E. and J. Wiley. 1996. Journey North: A distance learning adventure.
CPB Math and Science Collection. Washington D.C.
Kerlinger,
P. 1989. Flight Strategies of Migrating Hawks. University of Chicago
Press. 375 pp.
Kerlinger,
P. 1995. How Birds Migrate. Stackpole Books. 228 pp.
Newton,
I. Birds of Prey
Parry-Jones,
Jemima. 2000. Eyewitness Books: Eagles and Birds of Prey. D.K.
Publishing (ages 9-12)
Uspenskii,
S.M. 1984. Life at High Latitudes, a study of bird life. U.S.
Department of Interior and the National Science Foundation. Amerind
Printing. 385 pp.
Weidensaul,
S. 1999. Living on the Wind - Across the hemisphere with migratory
birds. North Point Press.
Videos:
Eagles,
Masters of the Skies. 1998. John Downer. PBS Home Video.
Educational
Videos available from the Alaska Resources Library and Information
Services (http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/eagles.htm)
Life
of Birds.1999. David Attenborough. BBC Video, Worldwide America.
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