{"id":1858,"date":"2026-03-27T05:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:16:04","slug":"extreme-birdwatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/extreme-birdwatching\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Birdwatching"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Extreme Birdwatching: Measuring Change on a Gal\u00e1pagos Island<\/em>
\nby Loree Griffin Burns (Author) and Jamie Green (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Daphne is an island. Not one you\u2019d choose for a vacation. There are no sandy beaches, resorts, hotels, or houses. No tall trees to make shade. The steep, rocky sides of a volcanic Gal\u00e1pagos island are not inviting, and most who visit this part of the world sail right past. But Peter and Rosemary Grant are not most people. A husband-and-wife team, the Grants came to this singular place with a singular goal: to study two species of wild finch. For decades, the scientists and their students counted, cataloged, and observed finches on a remote mile-wide island. Through teamwork, painstaking observation\u2014extreme bird-watching, extreme plant study, extreme seed counting\u2014and careful beak measurements, the group of committed scientists proved step-by-step, over forty years, how finch beaks change in response to their environment.<\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

The author, Loree Griffin Burns, is one of my former students<\/a>.<\/em>
\nCopyright \u00a9 2026 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. (*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extreme Birdwatching: Measuring Change on a Gal\u00e1pagos Island by Loree Griffin Burns (Author) and Jamie Green (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Daphne is an island. Not one you\u2019d choose for a vacation. There are no sandy beaches, resorts, hotels, or houses. No tall trees to make shade. The steep, rocky sides of a volcanic … <\/p>\n

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