Resources for Community Events

Here are some resources to help you with your community event:

    • Bird Identification:

The PowerPoint Presentation to identify the 16 Celebrate Urban Birds focal species is a great tool to use when introducing the focal species.

These PowerPoint Presentation notes will help you share identification tips and cool facts about the birds in the presentation above.

The printer-friendly Bilingual Celebrate Urban Birds Brochure, with artwork by Evaristo Hernández Fernández, includes information about the project, features five focal species, and describes the connection between the arts and science.

    • Certificates of Appreciation

Use this Certificate of Appreciation template with your participants or download one for yourself! Thank you for sending us your observations!

    • Greening

Our Little Green Places poster includes 16 species of bird-friendly plants and art activities.

    • Publicity

English media release form: We can only use photos of your event on our website if you have signed photo releases from your participants.
Please use the Spanish media releases form with Spanish speaking participants.

    • Data Collection:

Tips for collecting data with groups. Download this guide to get wonderful tips on how to lead birdwatching groups to collect data.

This Bird ID Guide with beautiful illustrations by Liz Clayton-Fuller will help your participants learn how to identify the Celebrate Urban Birds focal species.

The bilingual Celebrate Urban Birds kit contains instructions, silhouettes, and data form. Everything your participants need to do the project!

This Tally Sheet, complete with photos, is very useful when taking groups of participants to collect data (please remember to transfer data to the scannable data entry sheets provided in your kit or above).