I follow some sites that explore feeding birds and the pro and con consequences of this human involvement in nature. This recent analysis of this hobby from Popular Science caught my attention.
My interest in this topic goes way back and I see I posted on this same topic in 2012. The reason for this interest has my roots in my original training in biology and the later interest in technology. I did some work for North Dakota Game and Fish way back working in promoting what at the time were called OWLS sites. An OWL was an an outdoor wildlife learning site that Game and Fish was giving schools small grants to develop. Game and Fish had a small division focused on “watchable wildlife” and the director was interested in my ideas about sharing information (images and data) using technology. Feeding birds and conducting related data collection were activities being promoted.
Not all schools have the opportunity to put out and observe feeder activity, but there are certainly opportunities here for classroom activities should this be possible.
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