BHS Envirothon visits Brukner Nature Center

BHS Envirothon visits Brukner Nature Center
Posted on 12/15/2022
Kayla Ferdelman, a wildlife educator at Brukner Nature Center

Bellefontaine High School students participating in the Spring Envirothon competition prepared by attending a Wildlife Identification seminar at Brukner Nature Center in Troy on Tuesday.

Students began the day in the aviary observation deck where they were taught to identify and classify several native and invasive bird species.

The center also gave students access to a collection of pelts and skulls and taught students how to identify them.

Students then got to meet several of the center's wildlife ambassadors – animals that the center have rehabilitated but deemed unsuitable for release into the wild – including a coyote, little brown bat, albino mink, and a variety of large raptors.

The students paid back the center by helping identify and cut down a large swath of invasive Japanese Honeysuckle that was growing in the preserve.

The BHS Envirothon advisors are Chris Miller and Cody Sigrist.

Photos: Kayla Ferdelman, a wildlife educator at Brukner Nature Center, teaches students to differentiate different small mammal breeds by their pelts.

The Envirothon competitors learned about the history of Ohio's wildlife at the Iddings Log House, located on the Brukner Nature Center property.

Senior Braelyn Wilcoxon and sophomore Camryn Neill look for distinctive markings on an Eastern Meadowlark cadaver in the nature center's aviary observation deck.

Students learn to inspect tooth shape and orbital bones to identify animal remains.

Sophomore Hunter Kerns cuts down one of many invasive Japanese Honeysuckle plants found on the preserve.

Kayla Ferdelman, a wildlife educator at Brukner Nature Center

BHS students visit the Iddings Log House.

Senior Braelyn Wilcoxon and sophomore Camryn Neill

Students inspect tooth shape and orbital bones.

Hunter Kerns cuts down one of many invasive Japanese Honeysuckle plants.
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