Become a citizen scientist.
Make your observations count!
Project FeederWatch
As an individual: Watch your feeders and record your observations.As a school project: Put up some feeders near your classroom windows. Keep track of your observations.
Have a cottage? Do you ever see or hear the Common Loon?
Keep track of urban birds.
Bird Cams
Observe nesting and nesting behaviour of birds. Click this link to see available cams:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/nestboxcam/
Download these activities and information sheets:
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50-page Bird colouring book. Most of the pictures in this coloring book were drawn by the noted bird artist and ornithologist, Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1872-1927). The other drawings are by William Montagna. These drawings are reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Comstock Publishing Company, Inc., Ithaca, New York.
Awesome Bird Facts
- A Chimney Swift can eat 1000 flying insects a day.
- A Barn Owl can swallow a large rat whole. After digesting its meal, the owl coughs up a pellet containing the rat's bones and fur.
- A Baltimore Oriole can eat as many as 17 hairy caterpillars in a minute.
Send us your bird drawings and/or photographs. If you have an Awesome Bird Fact, please share it with us. We'll post as many good ideas, artwork and photographs as possible on our website. Be sure to include your name.
Contact us at: birdprotectionquebec@gmail.com