Resources for Most Wanted Birds
If you have the BirdSleuth: Most Wanted Birds module, this site will help you get the most from your kit!
(if you don't already own this module, click here to learn more!)
BirdSleuth: Most Wanted Birds Resources and Links
Investigation 1: Sound Surveillance
- Find more bird sounds and video at the Lab's Macaulay Library Digital Archive. Hear backyard birds by region, explore staff picks in categories such as courtship and territory defense, and even search for a specific species!
- The "Life of Birds" series (PBS) offers this informative and interesting page about bird song. (Adult reading level)
- Mystery sound #4 is the only mystery animal that is a bird! Learn more about this species, the Common Loon, at this All About Birds page!
Investigation 2: Sleuthing Silhouettes
- Learn more about identifying birds by silhouette at this All About Birds page. (Note that the species in this diagram are not the same as the ones in the Most Wanted Birds kit.)
Investigation 3: Become a Bird ID Expert
- Use All About Birds to learn more about clues to bird ID.
- Use the All About Birds online guide to learn about the birds you see. We've even put together a page of Focus Card links to make searching even easier.
Investigation 4: Solve the Case with Field Guides
- Supplement exploring written field guides with the All About Birds online guide, which contains sounds and videos of birds.
Investigation 5: Sleuthing for Science
- Learn more about BirdSleuth eBird and be sure to enter your data! Just click the "submit observations" button or click here!
Investigation 6: Become an eBird Data Sleuth
- View and Explore data through BirdSleuth eBird to answer your own questions about birds.
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Learn about the research of other students by ordering your copies of Classroom BirdScope student research magazine or downloading the BirdSleuth Reports online magazine.
Teachers, don't forget to use the FREE BirdSleuth: Investigating Evidence module, to help your kids do scientific inquiry!
