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      Even though the Great Lakes are a water-centered ecosystem, they also include 201,460 square miles of land drainage area and 10,210 miles of shoreline, and a variety of land and air organisms such as birds, slamanders, and snakes. Over 300 different kinds of birds have been seen on the Great Lakes region. 
     Many habitats for those organisms living on land or in air have been serious decreased and damaged by intensive coastal development and environmental contamination. 
 
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1. Mayflies and Lake Erie
2. Taking the Pulse of a Wetland

For additional activities
1. The Terrestrial Salamander Monitoring Program: Salamander Experiments
2. the Reptile and Amphibian trivia
3. Bird of the Great Lakes: Teacher Stuff
 
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1. Activities for the Changing Earth System
  • In Focus: Endangered and Threatened Species
2. The Great Lake Erie
  • 3. Vegetation and Plant Geography of the Lake Erie Basin
  • 12. Effect of Human activities on the Ecology of Lake Erie
3. Earth Systems - Education Activities for Great Lakes Schools

Life in the Great Lakes

  • How are shorebirds adapted for feeding?
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1. Birds of the Great Lakes
 http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/jason97/index.html

2. Canada's Aquatic Bird
 http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/birds/birdframes.htm

3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region
 http://www.fws.gov/r3pao/

4. Terrestrial Salamander Monitoring Program
 http://www.im.nbs.gov/sally/

5. Amphibians
http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/amphibians/amphframes.htm

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