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Downtown Owls ArcGIS Online Mapping

ArcGIS mapping activity on Burrowing Owls
Burrowing Owls. Photo: Jenohn Wrieden
Education Programs

Downtown Owls ArcGIS Online Mapping

ArcGIS mapping activity on Burrowing Owls

Downtown Owls Introduce ArcGIS Online

Introduce your students to the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with this free online lesson. 

What's GIS?

Try out our Burrowing Owl lesson and if you like it, apply for your school's free subscription to ArcGIS Online from ESRI (a world leader in GIS technology).  Get your application here.

Lesson Includes:

  • Interactive map that students build with simple instructions
  • Basic Burrowing Owl natural history facts
  • Opportunity for students to analyze Burrowing Owl distribution throughout Arizona both in present day and in the future
  • Opportunity for students to predict how Burrowing Owls will respond to climate change based on potential habitat available

Dowload the lesson under "Downloadable Resources" below.

To learn more about how climate change will affect Burrowing Owls and other birds across the nation, visit Audubon's climate report, Survival by Degrees.

Feedback? Contact Cathy Wise at cwise@audubon.org.

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