Updates from the Field

Attention Teachers: Click here for suggested discussion questions relating to this week's field update Download this week's location data for the banded Siberian Cranes that we are tracking this fall Week 6 Northeast China Jim Harris, Vice President International Crane Foundation This week's field update follows the east Asia flyway south into Northeast China and the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Inner Mongolia. Jim traveled to Northeast China in November 2006 to visit several schools that are participating in the Tracking Cranes education project. Following are three excerpts from Jim’s travel journal describing his experiences (click on the links below to open the files). The first document describes the landscape and people of Inner Mongolia. The remaining two documents describe Jim’s visits to schools at the Xianghai and Zhalong Nature Reserves in neighboring Jilin and Heilongjiang Provinces. Click here to learn more about the east Asia flyway in China. Inner Mongolia: Landscape and People of the Steppes (.pdf 63 KB) Xianghai Primary School (.pdf 56 KB) Zhalong Middle School (.pdf 50 KB)

Field Updates Student Activities Yakutian Birds Geography: Taiga and Tundra Ecoregions Field Work in the Tundra Science: Studying Animal Behavior Environmental Camps Team Building: Crane Egg Game Fall Migration Geography: Tracking Cranes Waterbird Lead Poisoning in Yakutia Social Studies: Raising Awareness Northeast China Discussion: Changing Landscapes Songnen Plain Science: Wetlands as Filters Student Exchanges Writing: School News Birding in China Science: Classroom Bird Feeders Bohai Bay Discussion: Waterbird Surveys