On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:40:06PM -0800, Rob Sandelin wrote:
> Re: Hybrid GullsStarting next month I will be working with a group of
> students on a bird diversity survey of Lord Hill Park. These kids are 6-10th
> graders, will be training in bird ID, song ID, etc. They will be working on
> this through the end of June. If you have any pointers or ideas about how to
> make this as professional as can be done with kids, I'd love your ideas.
> You can email me privately at floriferous at msn.com

Hi, Rob. I have always found the best way to teach birdsong is if the
student is able to actually see the bird doing the singing, either in
binoculars or a scope if needed. The visual helps cement the aural
in this case. Of course, this presupposes that the student is not visually
impaired.

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Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca