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Illinois Birds Unit

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Illinois Birds entire PDF document
Introduction
Illinois Bird Species List
Illinois Birds Video on YouTube
Illinois Birds Trunk

Lessons - Illinois Birds CD-ROM

Unit 1

Unit 1 (all lessons in the unit)
What Makes a Bird a Bird?
Home Tweet Home
Birds of a Feather
Natural Tools

Unit 2

Unit 2 (all lessons in the unit)
House Plans
Bird Banter
Hello, Mate

Unit 3

Unit 3 (all lessons in the unit)
Moving Day
Right or Wrong - You Decide
Here Today...Gone Tomorrow
Be a Birder

Unit 4

Unit 4 (all lessons in the unit)
Educated Action
Glossary

A Closer Look

One Bird Short of a Flock
3-D Eagle and Prey
Migration Mural

One Bird Two Habitats

One Bird Two Habitats - A supplemental curriculum unit about Neotropical migratory birds
Introduction

One Bird Two Habitats Activities

A Round Trip Ticket
Avian Olympics
Buddy Banding
Cowbird Capers
Cultural Exchange
Defining A Forest
Designing Researchers
Habitat Squeeze
If There Were No Birds...
Intelligent Tinkering
Interview a Bird
Migrateering
Migration Migraines
Tell the World
Territory Tango
The Balancing Act
Town Meeting
Appendices

Resources and Other Information

Gems of Blue - Bluebird Information
Wood Projects for Illinois Wildlife