South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Inc.
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Our 25th Anniversary Celebration was a huge success and we raised $9,236.57! Thanks to everyone for their support, and we'll have a recap and thank yous in our June quarterly newsletter, "The Mockingbird Chronicles!"
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"Wildlife Wednesdays" coming to SPWRC
June, 2013!
Thanks to grant funding from four Foundations and Bayer CropScience during 2012 and early 2013, our pilot program for summer education programs is starting this June. Do you know a child 9-11 years old (4th or 5th grade) who would like to be part of our new “Wildlife Wednesdays” summer learning program?
From 1-3 PM on June 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2013, we’ll be launching our summer learning program. Classes will be held at the house on SPWRC’s property at 95th and Indiana Avenue. It will be fast paced, informal and interactive, and most of all, fun for youngsters who want to learn things about wildlife they probably won’t learn in school. We’re excited about sharing Lubbock’s “Wild Side!”
Basic concepts will emphasize wildlife as a natural resource. We’ll learn about characteristics that make birds unique, feathers, habitat, courtship, nests, eggs, migration, laws that protect wild birds, endangered species, the plume industry and dawn of conservation. We’ll discuss how people impacted and altered wildlife populations and their habitats. We’ll also learn about some of Lubbock’s common birds. We’ll discuss birds of prey in detail, their vision, hearing and other adaptions; how beaks and feet of raptors help them make a living. Students will visit our raptors that reside on the property. During our session on mammals, we’ll talk about species found in our area and learn about Texas bats.
Carol Lee will teach the classes, and we may also have a few guest speakers on one or more of the Wednesday sessions. Materials will be provided, and details are available on request. She taught “Super Saturdays” at Texas Tech for a number of years, is a certified "Project Wild" instructor, and has been involved in wildlife education since 1989.
The cost for the four two-hour sessions is $50.00 made payable to SPWRC. For more information call Carol at 806 745-8120 or email her at spwrc@suddenlink.net with “Wildlife Class” in the subject line. Thanks to the Helen Jones Foundation, South Plains Foundation, CH Foundation and Dora Roberts Foundation for helping make this giant leap forward possible!
Basic concepts will emphasize wildlife as a natural resource. We’ll learn about characteristics that make birds unique, feathers, habitat, courtship, nests, eggs, migration, laws that protect wild birds, endangered species, the plume industry and dawn of conservation. We’ll discuss how people impacted and altered wildlife populations and their habitats. We’ll also learn about some of Lubbock’s common birds. We’ll discuss birds of prey in detail, their vision, hearing and other adaptions; how beaks and feet of raptors help them make a living. Students will visit our raptors that reside on the property. During our session on mammals, we’ll talk about species found in our area and learn about Texas bats.
Carol Lee will teach the classes, and we may also have a few guest speakers on one or more of the Wednesday sessions. Materials will be provided, and details are available on request. She taught “Super Saturdays” at Texas Tech for a number of years, is a certified "Project Wild" instructor, and has been involved in wildlife education since 1989.
The cost for the four two-hour sessions is $50.00 made payable to SPWRC. For more information call Carol at 806 745-8120 or email her at spwrc@suddenlink.net with “Wildlife Class” in the subject line. Thanks to the Helen Jones Foundation, South Plains Foundation, CH Foundation and Dora Roberts Foundation for helping make this giant leap forward possible!
SPWRC holds a Special Purpose Possession permit to retain non-releasable migratory birds for educational purposes, issued by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
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