The educational benefits of a ten-week home-based wild bird feeding program for children

Anthrozoos

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 19-28

  Beck, Alan M ^a   Melson, Gail F ^b   Da Costa, Patricia L ^b   Liu, Ting ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Children; Home based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035615357     PISSN: 08927936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/089279301786999599     Document Type: Article

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