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Bird - Lore 



This field-worker will go out to schools, lecturing, suggesting methods, carry- 

 ing material for nature-study, and in general, opening up avenues of approach 

 to outdoor life and outdoor observation. The fact that so many teachers are 

 in need of a special adviser is one strong argument in favor of keeping such a 

 worker in the field. One trained worker with a definite purpose can work more 

 effectively than twenty untrained teachers with no particular purpose, or a 

 hazy one. 



If each State Audubon Society would raise funds to keep one or more 

 trained workers in the field, nature-study would soon come to its own. Strive 

 to get at definite values in plans for the year's work and values which shall 

 be general rather than restricted in scope. Convince your community and your 

 school-board that nature-study is an essential; that to omit it from the 

 curriculum is a backward step; that, to teach it properly, teachers must first 

 be taught themselves. How teachers shall be taught and where they shall be 

 taught is another question. Suggestions from teachers and field-workers or 

 from educators will be welcome. — A. H. W. 



SUGGESTIVE LESSONS IN BIRD-STUDY: 

 THE WOODPECKER 



WILLIAM GOULD VINAL, Instructor in Nature-Study, The Rhode Island Normal School 



The following lessons are suggestive for an introduction to bird-study in the grades. 

 The Flicker is taken as a type, since it is a permanent resident, at least as far north as 

 Massachusetts, and may become an acquaintance before the arrival of other species. 



Fig. I. WORK OF WOOD-BORING GRUBS AND OF THEIR WOODPECKER ENEMIES 



