{"id":3422,"date":"2020-03-28T17:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T18:21:00","slug":"boston-bird-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2020\/03\/boston-bird-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bird Bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took time to make the following game board because I greatly love bird-watching and also love games. I invite you to view it. School teachers or parents might enjoy it as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ellisrp\/files\/2020\/03\/Boston-Bird-bingo-2020.pdf\"><strong>Boston Bird Bingo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I admit that our bird-watching is much better through having a bird-feeder in the back yard, which accounts for probably half of the species we have seen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each picture is of a bird or animal seen, heard or smelled in Newton \u00a0Massachusetts in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Study it to learn the local birds and common mammals.<\/li>\n<li>Print it out and see if you can see five in a row, column or diagonal.<\/li>\n<li>See how many species you can see, hear or smell.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the links to listen to the sounds, and then listen for them outside.<\/li>\n<li>Print out the second page and see how many names you can remember.<\/li>\n<li>Have someone tell you a name, and see if you can find it on the second page.<\/li>\n<li>Try taking your own pictures or make your own recordings.<\/li>\n<li>Learn the differences between male and female books. Look at the Cardinals! How different is the male and female house sparrow? Which one is shown here?<\/li>\n<li>Use the embedded sounds to listen and learn, and then have someone else play them to see if you can identify them. How many can you guess correctly?<\/li>\n<li>If you play all of the sounds quickly in sequence and on a recurring loop, you can turn your room into a bird sanctuary with all the sounds going at once. See if you can recognize them as they a sung.<\/li>\n<li>These are mostly winter and year round birds just now. Soon arriving will be many migrants, including the red-wing blackbirds, kinglets, flycatchers, warblers, owls, hawks, ducks and geese. Then come the summer resident birds. See how many you can find on your own!<\/li>\n<li>I have personally seen 15 wild mammals in Newton MA. Can you think of what they might have been?<\/li>\n<li>Start your own life lists!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This blog is posted<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2020\/03\/boston-bird-bingo\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Feel free to share with your friends. Some teachers might even want to use this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ellisrp\/files\/2020\/03\/Boston-Bird-bingo-2020.pdf\"><strong>Boston Bird Bingo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>My new COVID19 mantra of March 28, 2020: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay at home. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If needed, send out one person every three days to buy food. Wear a mask if you go out. It need not be perfect, but any mask or scarf is better than nothing when around other people. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maintain 2 meter distance if you do go outside. Jogging is fine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wash hands and things you touch compulsively. Wear gloves of any kind when you go out to stores. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay connected online to stay socially connected. Don\u2019t watch too many news broadcasts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This at home quarantine may only have to last for two months if we continue the dance well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Low cost antibody testing kits are rapidly becoming available and will greatly help the dance. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Randall P. Ellis, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ellisrp@bu.edu\">ellisrp@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/\">http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took time to make the following game board because I greatly love bird-watching and also love games. I invite you to view it. School teachers or parents might enjoy it as well. Boston Bird Bingo I admit that our bird-watching is much better through having a bird-feeder in the back yard, which accounts for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2020\/03\/boston-bird-bingo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boston Bird Bingo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10942,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}