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Migration Education Kit

• Contents / Foreword (PDF, 187K)
• Miranda wildlife refuge and wetlands (PDF, 124K)
• • What's special about Miranda
  • Planning a visit
  • At the centre
• Using this resource (PDF, 56K)
• Environmental behaviour guide (PDF, 277K)
• Science units: living world, Miranda (PDF, 139K)
• • Learning activities chart
  • Curriculum integration chart
  • Teachers' information
• Shorebirds (waderbirds) (PDF, 167K)
• • Identification of common waders
• Migration (PDF, 553K)
• • Shorebird locations
  • Northward migration routes
  • Southward migration routes
• What the birds eat (PDF, 88K)
• Feet and beaks and wing structure (PDF, 256K)
• Flyways and problems (PDF, 122K)
• • Threats to nesting birds
• Estuaries (PDF, 126K)
• Mangroves (PDF, 44K)
• Miranda shorebird centre (PDF, 34K)
• The Kaiaua/Miranda area (PDF, 32K)
• The chenier plain at Miranda (PDF, 43K)
• Taxidermy - a brief introduction (PDF, 26K)
• • Waderbirds in their habitat
• Shoreline vegetation (PDF, 92K)
• • Vegetation types
  • Teaching exercises
  • Collecting specimens
• Conditions and wildlife in the six main habitats (PDF, 873K)
• • Stages in the life history of the NZ mangrove
  • Miranda shoreline vegetation
• Native, introduced and adventive plants (PDF, 75K)
• Birds at Miranda - Teaching background (PDF, 209K)
• • Miranda bird visit list
  • Miranda bird fact sheet
  • Bird identification reinforcement
  • Binoculars
  • Miranda bird survey sheet
• Miranda shorebird composition (PDF, 51K)
• Bird mural drawings (PDF, 908K)
• Miranda shoreline shell study (PDF, 875K)
• • Miranda shells
  • Univalves and bivalves
  • Sea shell identification
• References and resources (PDF, 59K)
• Evaluation form (PDF, 38K)
• Answers to student activities (PDF, 46K)
• Student activities (PDF, 452K)

Studying shorebird migration with a emphasis on conservation

This 131-page education kit is a resource for teachers based on the Miranda Shorebird Centre and surrounding coastal wetlands, southeast of Auckland. It's designed for bulk photocopying use with a school teaching programme.

You can download the kit as a PDF below. Hard copies can be ordered from the Auckland Conservancy. See contact details below.

Every school may have one copy of each kit free and additional copies can be bought for $10 each.

Publication information

The Shorebird Education Kit was prepared for the Miranda Naturalist's Trust by Sue Reid and Keith Woodley, with a special supplement by John Walsby. Illustrations are by Keith Woodley. It was published by the Auckland Conservancy of the Department of Conservation.

First edition September 2001, updated June 2002 and November 2003.

The text and illustrations in the Miranda Shorebird Migration Education kit are covered by copyright.

ISBN: 0-478-22506-7

Contact

Auckland Conservancy Office
Phone:	+64 9 307 9279
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