Funky Nests in Funky Places Poetry | Celebrate Urban Birds

What prompts birds to build nests where they do? Some of their real estate choices are real head-scratchers. Over the years, we hosted our challenge Funky Nests in Funky Places. We marveled with the interesting bird nests stories through the artistic expression of so many! Participants shared photos, videos, drawings, painting, others wrote stories, and poetry.

In this page, we share some of the poems from our beloved challenge, and from others who keep inspired. They tell a story, or teach us about our favorite feathered friends.

Explore, be inspired, and enjoy!

Ospreys Funky Nest by Marilyn Hamecher

Birdcraft by Barbara Reynolds

The Hotel St. Paul’s by Patrick Hansel

Hummingbird by Cassandra Polemi

See by Christy Cox

Morning Call by Stacie Grannum

Detroit Wren by London Drysdale

Eastern Phoebe by Marilyn Hamecher

The Scrub Jay by Jason Rice

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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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