How did you come to Celebrate Urban Birds?  Was it because you wanted to share your love of birds and nature with someone else?  Maybe with a grandparent, grandchild, neighbors, co-workers, members of your club?

 You might Celebrate Urban Birds with family, by yourself, or in the middle of the city...we consider all those Celebrations to be events, both large and small; as easy as you and your children watching the feeder in the back yard, or a big grand celebration in your neighborhood park, with dance, music, and art activities.

Spotlight on participants! 

Lots of people and groups have already signed up and Celebrated Urban Birds.  Check out our partners in the community, our mini-grant recipients, our list of Celebrate Urban Bird events.  Check out artists who Celebrate and some of the special youth who have astonished us with their interest and commitment to birds. Check out participating organizations like the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia, who took so many children outside to do the Celebrate Urban Birds observation that they were our top data submitter in Summer, 2008. 

Ideas

We've got lots of ideas to help your group get started...with specific resources if you are part of :

• a school
•  library
• nature center
• community garden
• home school family
• Cooperative Extension
•  4-H
• wildlife refuge
• park 

Maybe you want others in your neighborhood to notice the beautiful birds around them.  See how the artist DECOY created art in her neighborhood so that people would notice and appreciate Rock Pigeons. 

Maybe you'd like to hold a Celebrate Urban Birds workshop like we do every year, here at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.  Last time we had sessions on community gardening, visualizing sounds, textile bird art, and more! 

Maybe you'd like your neighborhood to become a great place for birds. We've got a book to recommend, "On Meadowview Street" by Henry Cole,  tells the story of how one family made their backyard a nature preserve, and the rest of the neighborhood followed their great example! 

Check out the entries from our challenge, "LIttle Green Places for Birds".  Lots of fantastic photos and art work illustrate where people notice birds in their neighborhood...A little green place can be as simple as a protected brush pile. You can get ideas about how to create your own 'Little Green Place for Birds' ...just planting a container with sunflowers, or maybe creating new landscaping in your community garden. 

Maybe your 'community' is 'virtual', and you'd like to read or create some bird blogs.