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34583
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The Chimney Swift, a migratory bird that nests in North Carolina in early April, is well-known for their chimney roosting habits. These birds collect by the thousands in chimneys across North Carolina from dusk until dawn. With the disappearance or capping of chimneys in residential areas, conservationists have begun designing towers made from brick or concrete for the swifts to live in.
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences teamed up with students at Broughton High School in Raleigh to create a new program designed to help students move beyond their normal biology course. The program allows students to come to the museum every other day, assist with education and outreach, and conserve and inventory specimens.
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North Carolina Naturalist
(NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 9 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2001,
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34617
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, along with the Wildlife Resources Commission and NC State University, have developed a new animal tracking program called Candid Critters. The objective is for citizens to place camera traps on approved public lands in order to capture photographs of the flora and fauna. This will help track animal behavior, migration, and more. By March 2017, they plan to have the program in all 100 counties.
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34570
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences serves a vast array of citizens in their outreach and education programs. Senior centers, Scout organizations, and school groups are among the groups that benefit from these programs. The museum has also become fluid in adjusting the programs to help incorporate better teaching styles for deaf, blind, bilingual, and distance learning patrons.
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North Carolina State University Libraries is teaming up with paleobotanist Elisabeth Wheeler in order to catalog thousands of species of wood. The collection, “Inside Wood”, will be available on the free public database, and showcase thousands of samples from different trees around the world. Wheeler has also donated her personal collection of 25,000 samples to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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The monarch butterfly in North America makes its way down to Mexico every year to lay eggs, passing through North Carolina in spring and fall. But with the decline of milkweed and other native plants, the monarch butterfly populations drop as well. North Carolinians can help by growing native species in their gardens.
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34559
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The Junior Curator position at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences helps students between grades 7 and 12 to learn about what it takes to work with live animals at the museum. This article focuses on high school senior Elizabeth Jones, who started as a seventh grader in the program. The Junior Curator position allows students to interact with animals, lead education and outreach programs, and hone their skills to become a leader in the curator circuit.
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North Carolina Naturalist
(NoCar QH 76.5 N8 N68), Vol. 9 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2001,
p9-11, il, por
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34575
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In an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, the diverse geology of the state is explored. North Carolina is the only state to produce all four major gems. Emeralds, sapphires, hiddenite, rubies, space rocks and more are all on display at the museum in the Treasures Unearthed exhibit.
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is the top-ranked destination in Raleigh, the state’s most popular museum, and one of the nation’s top free family attractions. This can be attributed to state funding, thousands of volunteer hours, and private donors and stakeholders.
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The purple martin spends their breeding and nesting season in North Carolina and spend the winter in South America. After finding martin houses unattended, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences teamed up with the Wake Audubon Society to tend to the houses and move them to more desirable locations. The new locations also allow the public to observe the behavior of the purple martins.
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34576
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In an effort to create more public outreach programs, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has created Outreach North Carolina. With the help of federal grant money, Outreach North Carolina has brought environmental education programs to ten underserved counties that have a large amount of natural resources. Five different programs catering to the public, children, and Spanish-speaking communities are now in effect.
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24843
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While many specimens are kept at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, this swordfish bill is a mystery when it comes to its origins. While museum staff know the identity of the immediate donors of the swordfish bill, its provenance remains unknown.
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The Aurora Fossil Museum is just one of many museums in the North Carolina Grassroots Science Museums Collaborative (GSMC). Since 1990, the GSMC has helped facilitate cooperative projects between members, enabled them to develop exhibits, and expand science education around North Carolina. There are now 25 member institutions in the GSMC, all of which benefit from acting as a cohesive unit for funding opportunities and intellectual sharing.
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34609
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Thirty years ago, the wild turkey was disappearing quickly from North Carolina. Now, after the Wildlife Resources Commission helped restock turkeys by taking them from overabundant areas to areas that were completely barren, the species is flourishing once again in North Carolina.
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34579
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Two of the museum employees capture the natural world around them in different ways. One uses a digital camera, and the other one sketches and paints. By making their subject matter the natural life of North Carolina, they hope to inspire people of all kinds to go out into nature and try it for themselves.
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