EcoLinks

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EcoLiteracy, Environmental Stewardship, Empowered Kids

Worksheets, lessons, and other resources to help kids connect to nature locally and globally. Promotes eco-literacy skills that students can use now and as the next generation of decision-makers, leaders, consumers.

Articles and success stories: Schools that have
implemented nature-based learning.

This collection will link you to a variety of themed designated days that focus on the environment, wildlife and health.

Vulture Science Pinterest Board
Here you can find links to vulture scientists, conservation programs, vulture resources and books. Keep Calm and Carrion!

Birds Pinterest Board
Connect to birds with this collection of photo galleries, bird science resources, conservation programs, citizen science projects, worksheets, lessons, bird books, bird stories, bird quotes, and more.

Create Gardens for Pollinators Pinterest Board
A collection of resources for attracting and protecting pollinators. "1 out of every 3 bites of food we eat exists because of animal pollinators like bees, butterflies and moths, birds and bats, and beetles and other insects." (Source" USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Nonfiction texts Pinterest Board
Worksheets, lessons and ideas to energize students' learning with nonfiction texts.

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Debra Toor's YouTube Channels:

Turkey Vultures Caught on Camera! YouTube Channel
Students can watch videos to observe turkey vulture behaviour: hatching chicks, hissing juveniles, chicks in a feeding frenzy, a kettle of soaring vultures, and more.

Vulture Literacy YouTube Channel
Munir Virani's TED TALK: Why I Love Vultures
The African Vulture Crisis
Vultures of East Africa; The Soap of the Savannah
VulPro's Vulture Conservation Centre
Poacher's Target Africa's Vultures
GoPro: The Cape Griffons
Vulture Declines Could Affect Humans.

Nature Connections YouTube Channel
Environmental Literacy skills

Watch on the PBS website
Hundreds of turkey vultures soar and float by Wisconsin Public Television
Researchers Mike Mossman and Lisa Hartman discuss vultures. Filmed at Devil's Lake State Park, one of the largest staging areas in the entire Midwest for turkey vultures.

Conservation Organizations

The Peregrine Fund, Global Raptor Information Network (GRIN) has a searchable database for species research. Species info and conservation programs are provided in detail.

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Resources for teachers, kids, general public
Tracking Maps to Monitor raptor movements
The Vulture Chronicles:
HM's Sanctuary's long-term & far-ranging study of New World Vultures

Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Online Birding Guide
All About Bird Biology
Also view Bird Cams, read Living Bird Blog & Magazine, and participate in Citizen Science projects.

IUCN Global Species Programme along with IUCN Species Survival Commission assesses the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties, and even selected subpopulations on a global scale to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and thereby promote their conservation.

BirdLife International collates and analyses information on all the world’s birds to set priorities for action, through species-specific initiatives, safeguarding of sites, campaigns and policy interventions.
Check out the Species Search List. BirdLife is the IUCN Red List authority for birds, classifying species in terms of the risk of extinction.

HBW Alive database provides full accounts for every bird species known to science up to June 2013, including distribution maps and color illustrations.

NEWS ARTICLES
2015
Asian Vultures Get Good News
Ahead of International Vulture Day
Scientific American by John R. Platt 09/03/2015

Vultures surf on heat from power plants
Science AAAS by Emily Conover
04/21/2015

2014
Microbes help vultures eat rotting meat Gut bacteria and strong gastric juices show how the birds can live on decaying flesh
Nature International Journal of Science by Ewen Callaway
11/26/2014

2012
Vultures: Ecosystem Guardians Wildlife Research & Conservation by tinald, 08/31/ 2012

EDUCATION

LEAD TOXICITY
Wildlife Center of Virginia’s Position on Lead Toxicity in Raptors

RAPTOR ADAPTATIONS
Instructive article about Raptor Adaptations by Stephanie Streeter, from DVRC Journal Fall/Winter 1998

Check out
Deb Toor's author page!

Find great locations to photograph nature: http://shothotspot.com/