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Funky Nests in Funky Places 2011

Sponsored by Kaytee

Thank you for submitting your entries to the 2011 Funky Nests in Funky Places Challenge. We are no longer accepting entries.

 

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Photo of nest in tractor by Sally Scholle, PA

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View photo and art entries to Funky Nests 2011

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Learn some fun facts about nesting birds

 

 

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Nest in grill by Chuck Branch, OK


Prizes include Kaytee bird feeders,Droll Yankee feeders,  a BirdSleuth Mini-Kit, nest boxes, sound CDs, sound guides, books, posters, and much more. The first 50 entrants will receive a copy of our "Silhouette" poster and selected images and videos will be posted on the Celebrate Urban Birds website.

 

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 Bird Sleuth 1

 

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Education Department's Bird Sleuth deluxe kit includes new resources, BirdSleuth: Discover Birds! and BirdSleuth: Discover Bird Diversity, which emphasize fast, flexible, and fun learning to get children interested in birds and the environment.

Prizes include the following special book:

Nests book by Sharon BealsNests: Fifty Nests and the birds that built them, by Sharon Beals.  Chronicle Books. 2011, "Now, Sharon Beals allows us to see the beauty and splendor of nests anew, through her remarkable photographs.  Her lens marries art, history, ornithology, a genetic legacy stretching back tens of millions of years, and our fundamental wonder at the exquisite, instinctive architecture of that which is a bird's nest.  Once more, we gasp. " (Scott Weidensaul)

 

NestWatch, another citizen science activity at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has generously donated copies of the beautiful Nesting poster illustrated by Pedro Fernandes

 NestWatch poster

Pine Tree Farms logo   Pine Tree Farms, Lansing, NY  has donated a number of feeders, suet, and seed logs for us to use as prizes
  Pine Tree Farm suet log Pine Tree Farm Suet Log feeder
  Pine Tree Farm seed wreath Pine Tree Farm Seed Wreath

 Selected entries will be posted on the Celebrate Urban Birds website. By entering, you agree that you are granting the Cornell Lab of Ornithology a royalty-free, perpetual license to use the images or video for any purpose, including but not limited to publications, websites, and commercial products benefiting education, outreach, and research programs.   Please read the language of the entire Release here before you agree