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Sign up to receive your free kit to Celebrate Urban Birds!

(while supplies last)

Learn about city birds, watch birds for science, get involved in projects to “green” up your community, and increase conservation awareness.
  • Observe birds (It takes only 10 minutes)
  • Hold Celebrate Urban Birds activities that combine the arts, learning about nature in your own neighborhood, and science
  • Participate on your own or with your group.
  • Enter your observations online or send us your paper form.
  • No knowledge of birds required!
  • It's easy.
  • Request Celebrate Urban Birds kits for free: two posters to help you identify birds, data sheet and return envelope, packet of flower seeds to plant, and instructions.
  • We'll send it to you by mail or
  • Register to download materials online

 What's New on the Celebrate Urban Birds website

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  • 50,000 kits requested in the last month! We are trying to keep up with kit orders but there will be a slight delay as we print, collate, and ship out kits. If you need your kits immediately, please email: urbanbirds@cornell.edu
  • Because of the great demand for kits we need your donations asap! Please help so that we can continue to bring birds to everyone. Click here to donate or send your check to Celebrate Urban Birds, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850.Robin Nest on Tire
  • Robins nest on tires 9 days in a row!

  • See some of the top photos selected for our Beautiful Birds in Urban Places contest. Winners will be announced soon.
  • We are reviewing entries for our Wild Idea Artist competition. Stay tuned!
  • Mini-grant proposals have been reviewed and selected.  We received an overwhelming response to our mini-grant invitation. It's really exciting to see such creativity and so many varied organizations across all geographical areas thinking about urban birds, conservation, and the arts.

 

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 by Marian Mendez

 
Would you like to learn more?
Visit our Celebration FAQ or email urbanbirds@cornell.edu
 
Please donate to Celebrate Urban Birds. We offer ALL materials for free so that everyone can learn, enjoy, and contribute to conservation awareness. We can't do it without your help. 

 

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Help us Improve

Celebrate Urban Birds is entirely grant-supported, therefore it is helpful for us to know who is using and benefiting from the program and how we can improve. You can help us by taking this short survey.

Organizations and group leaders please click here to take survey.
Individuals please click here to take survey.

 

 

 

 

Celebrate Urban Birds is supported by Smith Lever funds from the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture