The Thoughts of an Ornithologist

William Princeton


(1) I’ve spotted a young female Peregrine Falcon, but cannot read the two-digit code on her vid band. Because the Peregrine travel up to 15,000 miles each year, these colored leg bands are essential to identifying and tracking the birds. This bird has fantastic markings—through my binoculars, I can clearly make out the black mustache mark common to this species. I calculate the bird’s speed to be twenty-five miles per hour—she merely coasts while monitoring the mountainside for a tasty meal. Once the predator has focused in on her prey, she dramatically descends into that spectacular hunting stoop. At this moment, she’s the fastest animal on the planet—scientists have clocked Peregrines at speeds of 200 miles per hour during this hunting dive. I’m on cloud nine as I silently observe the bird’s victory.


(2) As a child, I was obsessed with the study of birds, known as ornithology. I spent eve

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(1) I’ve spotted a young female Peregrine Falcon, but cannot read the two-digit code on her vid band. Because the Peregrine travel up to 15,000 miles each year, these colored leg bands are essential to identifying and tracking the birds. This bird has fantastic markings—through my binoculars, I can clearly make out the black mustache mark common to this species. I calculate the bird’s speed to be twenty-five miles per hour—she merely coasts while monitoring the mountainside for a tasty meal. Once the predator has focused in on her prey, she dramatically descends into that spectacular hunting stoop. At this moment, she’s the fastest animal on the planet—scientists have clocked Peregrines at speeds of 200 miles per hour during this hunting dive. I’m on cloud nine as I silently observe the bird’s victory.

(2) As a child, I was obsessed with the study of birds, known as ornithology. I spent every opportunity observing the birds that lived around my family’s home. Ornithology drew me in like a moth to a flame. After completing high school, I was accepted at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where I became involved in species conservation. I spent several years color banding a wide variety of birds in California with the Fish and Wildlife Service. The banding systems allowed us to study the birds’ annual survivorship, fidelity to territory and mate, and migratory status. Years later, an acquaintance of mine from Cornell offered me a position on a team that works for the conservation of Peregrine Falcons. I’ve been fascinated by these birds ever since.

(3) The Peregrine population crashed between 1950 and 1970 due to pesticides like DDT. The future of these magnificent  birds remained uncertain for nearly two decades. Thanks to the diligent work of conservationists like Tom Cade, officials  removed the Peregrine from the endangered species list in 1999.

(4) Of course, these birds still aren’t entirely self-sufficient. The major concern is that the falcons tend to nest in urban areas  because of a phenomenon called “imprinting.” Falcons often reside in habitats similar to their natal nests, or the nests  where they were born. For birds bred in captivity, the site of their release is often imprinted in their brains. Early recovery  efforts used skyscrapers in urban areas as release sites for the Peregrine, causing the birds to return to large cities later in  life.

This passage is BEST described as

A) biography. C) persuasive essay.

B) journal entry. D) newspaper article.

Answer:

D) newspaper article.

Explanation:

According to the reading of the text above, we can conclude that this text is a newspaper article. This is because this text aims to expose and explain a certain subject, which in this case, are the thoughts about the study of birds of a specific species. This article mixes the concepts, references and ideas of this study with what motivated the author of the text to be interested in the study of birds and how it impacts the way he sees birds. The article does not seek to influence anyone, but aims to expose facts and ideas that surround the author's mind on the subject.

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Why do you think microblogging platforms have become popular when
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Petoskey stones are actually fossils! They are the remains of colonial coral that lived in Lake Michigan over 350 million years ago. Their white, circular patterns outline the ancient animals contained within them.

Why did the author use a definition pattern in this passage?

to discuss different types of Petoskey stones
to present the author’s opinion of Petoskey stones
to clarify why the author decided to write about Petoskey stones
to explain what a Petoskey stone is by providing a detailed description

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Read the excerpt from "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919."

Second, the molasses had been in the tank since July. This was a long time for molasses to be stored in a metal tank. During this time, the molasses began a chemical change. The molasses began making a gas called carbon dioxide. The tank was already too full. The carbon dioxide made matters worse. The gas pushed hard on the steel walls. The result was an explosion. The bottom of the tank blew out.

The cause-and-effect structure describes

a storage tank.
building with steel.
passing time.
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Which statements describe the poem? Check all that apply.

Click to read Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth. Then answer the question.
The central idea of this speech is that women and men should:
A. act respectfully toward one another.
B. be treated differently.
C. have equal ownership of property.
D. have the same rights.

Read these excerpt. One is from the text and one
from another source. Based on these excerpts, it is
reasonable to say that
А
blood types A, B, AB, and O are believed to be the
most unique blood types.
B
anyone who is blood type O can donate blood for
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С
with hundreds of known antigens besides A and B, it is
important for blood banks to have many types of blood.
D
if you do not have an A, B, or O blood type, then you
cannot be a blood donor.

Why do authors use dramatic irony?

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Select the letter of the CORRECTLY written sentence.

a.
He absolutely loved Cats; yet he called The Avengers one of the worst films. Ever.

b.
He called The Avengers one of the worst films ever. Absolutely loved Cats, though.

c.
He absolutely loved Cats, yet he called The Avengers one of the worst films ever.

d.
He absolutely loved Cats. Yet he called The Avengers one of the worst films ever.

Select the correctly punctuated sentence.
John and Marie's car is parked behind Jane and Lisa's motorcycles.
John's and Marie's car is parked behind Jane's and Lisa's motorcycles.
John and Marie's car is parked behind Jane's and Lisa's motorcycles.
John's and Marie's car is parked behind Jane and Lisa's motorcycles.

In Of Mice and Men, which of the following selections best explains
where George and Lennie are going?
O a) They are looking for someone who stole money from them.
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b) They are going to find a job.
Oc) They are going hunting for rabbits.
d) They are looking to buy a ranch in California.
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Jeanne took her two-year-old granddaughter to a beauty parlor for a haircut, but when the
stylist picked up scissors to trim Abigail's lovely red curls, Jeanne scooped up the child and ran
for the door.
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O ... haircut, however, when ...
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lines 164-168 how does the story alluded to here relate to the pilgrims experience?

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Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son. A few hours after my father's funeral, while he lay in state in the undertaker's chapel, a race riot broke out in Harlem. On the morning of the 3rd of August, we drove my father to the graveyard through a wilderness of smashed plate glass.

Baldwin places his father's funeral in the historical context of the Harlem race riots to show that racial prejudice in early 20th-century America

A) was taking place during his lifetime.

B) was also a cause for mourning

C) was interrupting an important family event.

D)was also coming to an end.​

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Select the letter of the CORRECTLY written sentence.

a.
My wife and I argue all the time, I like action-adventure films, but she prefers dramas.

b.
My wife and I argue all the time; I like action-adventure films, she prefers dramas.

c.
My wife and I argue all the time; I like action-adventure films, but she prefers dramas.

d.
My wife and I argue all the time. I like action-adventure films. But she prefers dramas.

1. In the excerpt below, the word demeaning (di-men'ing) means "I'm just saying that you're not going to get a group of middle-aged me to sit in a room and apply cosmetics to themselves under the instructio Vocabulary in Context A. insulting B. difficult. C. strange. D. disgusting of Brad Pitt, in hopes of looking more like him. Men would realize that task was pointless and demeaning." (Paragraph 9)​

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Read the story.

Home

Hattie stepped off the screeching subway train and lugged her possessions onto the escalator. When she finally emerged from underground, she got to the sidewalk and looked at the landscape. She was used to flatness and green; the farm that they’d just sold had cattle grazing as far as the eye could see. There was nothing green in sight here as cement behemoths sprung out of the ground taller than the stalks of corn back in Iowa. People zipped in front of her with briefcases tucked to their sides as high heels clacked on the pavement. It was all so overwhelming, so loud, and Hattie put her hands over her ears to shut out the sounds of the taxi horns and the thousand different conversations. Her little sister Evelyn didn’t; she was trying to take it all in.

Her mother pulled out a map from her purse and held it in shaky hands. “According to this, our new home should be right here.”

Hattie traced her mother’s index finger to a building that was so high that she had to crane her neck to see the top.

“This?” Evelyn gasped.

Her father, the man who was never at a loss for words, didn’t say anything. He adjusted the weight of the three bags that contained most of the possessions they’d been able to bring on the three-hour plane journey that had uprooted them from their old lives and deposited them in New York City.

Her father struggled to open the heavy front door, and when they were inside, the smell of hundreds of different meals clashed in her nose: spaghetti, fried chicken, fish, and curry. They stood in front of a bank of elevators as Evelyn pushed the button for the seventeenth floor. When they entered what would be their new home, Hattie spun around in tiny circles as her father gave them the “grand” tour.

“Here is where you and Evelyn will sleep,” he announced. He pointed to a room that was half the size of the Iowa bedroom that was hers alone, the same Iowa bedroom where she’d had all her sleepovers and whose walls still showcased the crayon scribbles from when she was a toddler. She’d tried to scrub them clean, but they were more stubborn than she was, so they would be there for the new family that would be moving in soon.

Evelyn tried to sound excited. “We get to share a room!”

Hattie was grateful for her younger sister, for the way that she could always look at the bright side of things. Hattie couldn’t say anything in response—she’d been speechless for most of the trip. Instead, she followed her father down the hallway that was narrow enough for one person to fit through, maybe two if they squeezed shoulder to shoulder.

“And here is where your mom and I will be.” She could hear the forced excitement in her father’s voice for a move that he didn’t want to make either. But they’d had to sell the farm, and when this opportunity presented itself, there had really been no choice.

The tour was over as soon as it started—tiny kitchen, one bathroom, boxy living room. The four of them would be sharing an apartment that was smaller than the drafty old kitchen in the farmhouse.

Without a word, they grabbed boxes and started about the business of unpacking in rooms that were inches away from one another rather than feet. Hattie walked over to a dirty square window in her new shared bedroom. She wiped it clean, hoping to see something that would remind her of Iowa, but the window only looked out onto more concrete and glass. A wave of sadness washed over her—the first crack in the numbness that she’d been feeling for the past month since she found out about the move. She turned her back and lowered her head so Evelyn wouldn’t see her, but then the sobs came, each louder than the previous one.

There was a hand on her shoulder. She wanted to put the smile back on because she knew it would be better for Evelyn and everyone else that way, but she couldn’t summon it now. She turned around and saw her blurry sister through tear-filled eyes. In front of her face, Evelyn was holding a folded-up picture of the whole family in front of the farmhouse.

“I miss it too,” Evelyn began, “but we don’t have to forget it.”

Together, they taped the picture to the corner of the bedroom window so they could see it whenever they wanted. Hattie pulled Evelyn close, knowing that a place would never be as important as the people in it.

what do you think should be included in the preamble today?

Why does Abigail accuse Tituba and Ruth of "conjuring spirit" spirits?

Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son. He was not a young man when we were growing up and he had already suffered many kinds of ruin; in his outrageously demanding and protective way he loved his children, who were black like him and menaced, like him: and all these things sometimes showed in his face when he tried, never to my knowledge with any success, to establish contact with any of us. Which best explains why Baldwin chooses the word "menaced"?

A)to illustrate the trickery the children perpetrate

B) to emphasize the cruelty the children endure

C)to suggest that the discrimination is imagined

D)to prove that the children are frequently bothered​

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Refer to the Newsela article "Rickie Fowler, Make-A-Wish and the walk of a lifetime at Detroit Golf Club."

In the section titled "Playing Since Age 6," which detail conveys the central idea that Anthony was a good golfer in his own right?


"'Golf is his world,' said Richard Trudel, his father."

"Trudel began playing golf when he was 6."

"By the time he was 13, he played four to five times a week..."

"...Trudel began to...push his handicap down into the single digits..."

In the sentence, "Rita found her cat hiding in the closet," |
what is the direct object?

Describe how female politicians are portrayed in the U.S. media?