Ideas

Focus on a Goal (Challenge Approach)

student bird watching and walking in a park

Involve local schools/teachers in a seasonal challenge or quest by creating a container garden for the birds, hosting a scavenger hunt in the park with or without binoculars, writing themed essays, creating a photo journal of local green spaces, or collecting and submitting data using Celebrate Urban Birds on one day with lots of people or many times in one day, or over many days.
Highlight existing conservation work and habitat at the park
Select children/classrooms to honor: Top Birder, Best Bird Scrapbook, Learned most bird sounds, etc.
Work with local businesses to provide prizes/incentives

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Celebrate Urban Birds strives to co-create bilingual, inclusive, and equity-based community science projects that serve communities that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from birding, conservation, and citizen science. The project seeks to promote better science through equitable knowledge sharing, increased access, centering missing voices and experiences, and intentionally advocating for community ownership and scientific research leadership. Together with participating communities, the project has co-developed processes to co-design, pilot, and implement scientific research and programming while focusing on race and equity.

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