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Caterpillary | HORTravels
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About HORTravels and About Me. Exploring the horticultural beauty in every adventure. May 7, 2015. Flowers in Spring. Scott Arboretum. Everywhere I go people are sneezing. Spring seemed to happen all at once and the pollen from everything is coating cars, pavement and, apparently, nostrils in a dusky green film. Funny how people lament the late start to spring wondering where all the flowers are and then almost as soon as they show their cheerful colors. Catkins are wind-pollinated flowers. Catkins h...
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Marine West Ecology | by Steve Clark | Page 2
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The Cheshire Cat of Educational Curricula. A recent post by a Twitter follower, Adriano Mannino (@Adriano Mannino), an academic philosopher and author, reminded me of the great value in teaching students how to think critically in preparing future leaders to tackle rapidly escalating social problems. The Cheshire Cat of educational curricula it is hinted at in all disciplines but appears fully formed in none. As soon as you push to see it in focus, it slips away. It was originally published on. Identify ...
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First Story Toronto | Exploring the Aboriginal History of Toronto! | Page 2
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First Story Toronto: Exploring the Aboriginal History of Toronto! Exploring the Aboriginal History of Toronto! July 17, 2015. Amazing Events not to be missed this summer! This is an amazing summer in Toronto for experiencing Indigenous cultures at multiple events! We don’t think there’s ever been a greater opportunity to meet more creative people from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities across Canada. The Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Road (1 block N. of Bloor). Monday July 20, 6pm.
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Mortal Remains | The Academy of Natural Sciences Blog
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The Academy of Natural Sciences Blog. September 2, 2014. Mortal Remains: Animals That Have Perished From the Face of the Earth in Recent Times. It’s a fitting name for a new Academy exhibit that showcases the museum’s incredible collection and raises awareness about species extinction. The exhibit opened this week in conjunction with the 100-year anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. A bird hunted from a population of billions to zero in less than a century. Falkland Islands wolf (.
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Carpe Diem Design and Consulting - Site Portfolio
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Systems Evaluation and Setup. Church of the Good Samaritan. Carpe Diem Design and Consulting, 2016. john@carpediem-me.net.
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Features | The Birder's Library
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The Birder's Library. Book Reviews for Birders, and More. The Best Bird Books of 2015. January 31, 2016 Comments (0). Actually, this is more a list of my favorite bird books of the year. I saw many books in 2015, but not nearly all of them. Certainly not enough to claim this list as comprehensive. Water Babies: The Hidden Lives of Baby Wetland Birds. The Living Bird: 100 Years of Listening to Nature. By Gerrit Vyn and The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature. Is a wonderful bit of natur...
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Next Read |
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Music, listings, beer, bikes, politics and more; straight outta Philly. January 31, 2014. I’ve always been fascinated by the plight of the passenger pigeon ever since my mom told me about them when I was a kid. So when I heard that Joel Greenberg. A Chicago author and natural history researcher was speaking at the Wagner Free Science Institute of Science five minutes from my house I had to go. Above is a stuffed passenger pigeon from the lecture, on loan from the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge.
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Book Review - The Passenger Pigeon
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Nature in Writing and Art. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Pebble Paintings →. Book Review: The Passenger Pigeon. October 2, 2014. 177 pages. Princeton University Press, 2014. 19.95. On 1st September 1914 the last known Passenger Pigeon, a female called Martha, died in her cage at Cincinnati Zoo. In a little over half a century, the species had gone from being one of the commonest in the world, probably numbering in the billions, to none. Pebble Paintings →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Laura's Conservation Big Year: 2013 | Page 2
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Laura's Conservation Big Year: 2013. Book review: Joel Greenberg’s “A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction”. In 1989 or 1990, when my daughter Katie was in kindergarten, my family took a trip to the Twin Cities and visited the Bell Museum of Natural History. I’d promised the kids that I’d get them their own copy of the. National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Is about the willful destruction, by humans...
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