Have you ever seen a bird on beach or shoreline and said to yourself, "These birds all look the same!?" Well believe it or not, there are several shorebird species that do have similar body shapes, color patterns, bill shapes, and breeding behavior.
Learn how these fascinating birds are alike and different in this latest title in the Compare and Contrast series published by Arbordale Publishing Co. This is also my debut book!
Audience: Ages 5 to 9, Grades 1 to 4
Includes 4-pages of Creative Minds activities!
Also available in Spanish
"Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming Folks in Nature"
Short story and poetry collection sharing adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-conforming folks in nature. "Sharon Dorsey reflects on her reaction to finally meeting a wildlife professional who looks like her..."
(2023)
Ecologist and writer Sharon Dorsey joins the team on this month's episode to share a story bein ambushed by unexpected ground-dwelling residents of the forest while surveying the ecology out east.
(2023)
“Confronting barriers in conservation”
Graduate student Sharon Dorsey studies the federally endangered piping plover, which nest on barrier islands in New York. The beaches where she conducts research were once segregated. Dorsey shares her experience as a researcher and a racial minority in the field of conservation. (2022)
"Finding paths and breaking barriers"
Stories celebrating women in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment. Current student Sharon Dorsey: plover protector and social media influencer.
(2022)
"Small acts really can make a difference "
WTOP News - Sharon Dorsey, one of the organizers of #BlackinEnviron Week focuses on activism, spotlighting Black professionals in the environmental fields and ways in which local action can produce results.
(2021)
"My Mason Story: Sharon Dorsey"
Environmental Science student Sharon Dorsey talks about researching the effects of wastewater on wetland species and about her experience as part of the Track & Field team at GMU. (2018)