Mexico
Mexico’s Celebrate Urban Birds Kit and Local Birds:
Action Guide
The action guide is aimed at educators in formal or informal settings who wish to teach, motivate and inspire their participants to use their understanding of birds as a way to join environmental efforts. Mexican artists also contributed to the guide and their amazing art makes the guide not only useful but also beautiful! The action guide is filled with simple, entertaining, and engaging lessons centered on the focal birds of the Celebrate Urban Birds in Mexico program. Through a series of activities participants develop interest and appreciation for the birds and nature of their region and then use citizen science to come up with concrete solutions for their local environmental problems. The activities are adaptable to resources that may be available. The action guide was co-created with Mexican participants of the CONABIO Urban Bird Program in Mexico and it goes well with the Mexican Celebrate Urban Birds Kit materials. The guide contains some new environmental activities as well as improved versions of activities found in the first draft of the action guide. To download the Action Guide and its accompanying materials click on the following links;
- Action Guide for Mexico
- Nest Guide for Birds of Celebrate Urban Birds in Mexico (Annexed Material)
- Identification of Bird Part Excercise (Annexed Material)
Special thanks to the Urban Birds Program NABCI and CONABIO in Mexico for their constant collaboration with Celebrate Urban Birds and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The creation of the Mexican Celebrate Urban Birds kit is the result of an excellent and transparent collaboration between our organizations and staff. We hope that the kit offers special support for beginners in bird and conservation topics. We encourage families, groups of friends, and people of all ages and from all social backgrounds go outside and enjoy the birds around them! It is important to join local and global conservation efforts through participation in citizen science.
Bird Guides & Books
Common Birds in Mexico and its Surroundings: Free Field Guide!
This easy-to-use field guide for Mexico City and its surroundings is small enough to carry in your pocket! It contains bird drawings, useful information about birds, and cool facts.
Hummingbirds of Mexico & North America
Check out this wonderful bilingual book about Mexican and North American hummingbirds by María del Coro Arizmendi and Humberto Berlanga. This book is a great guide to learning about hummingbirds. The book discusses hummingbird anatomy, feeding, reproduction, migration, ecological significance, and so much more. Hummingbirds of Mexico and North America is a bilingual Spanish-English book that you can download here for free, thanks to the support from CONABIO and UNAM in Mexico!
(Photo © Colíbres de México y Norteamérica)
Our Educational Guides & Recommended Books
Community Avitourism Guide
Together with Celebrate Urban Birds, the Community Avitourism Group of the Americas has co-created our wonderful Community Avitourism Guide: Guía Para Iniciar Proyectos de Aviturismo Comunitario en Latinoamérica (Community Avitourism Guide for Latin America) – only available in Spanish.
Our motivation was to create a visual and practical guide for anyone who wants to learn about the topic of Community-led Avitourism. This guide was created by community for community and is intended for communities that have historically been excluded from the sciences. If you want to get the guide, please complete this short survey:
Accessible and Inclusive Birding: A Handbook for Educators (in Spanish)
We are happy to share a new handbook with strategies and techniques for engaging people who are blind or have low vision, people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
This guide was cocreated by Veo Aves Falcón from Venezuela.
You can download this educational guide for free!
A Collective eBook Comes to Light
A bilingual online learning community, comprised of 50 committed and passionate leaders and educators, was supported by EECapacity, a National Training program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This group exchanged their unique insight and ideas over the course of about a year. At the conclusion of the dialogue project, many participants decided to showcase what they learned by sharing programs and projects with Latino communities throughout the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, in a free virtual publication (eBook). We invite you to download this eBook with the hope that it will help and encourage your work. We hope you are inspired to adapt and achieve similar innovative programs and projects in your community. Let us know how it goes for you!