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Request Celebrate Urban Birds kits for free: two posters to help you identify birds, data sheet and return envelope, packet of wild sunflower seeds to plant, and instructions. Bird observations are easy and no prior knowledge of birds is required!

What's New on the Celebrate Urban Birds website?

• Marian Mendez is the winner for the Beautiful Birds in Urban Places photo contest. Many thanks to Leica Camera, North America, Inc. for their donation of a camera for our First Prize Winner.
  
  
  

• Science in the City
  Is it possible that observing a pigeon with curious and open eyes could change our world or a child's future? Could the antics of roosting crows make a difference? Find out more about how people everywhere are connecting to nature and science through birds..
• Check us out on Facebook!
• What is Celebrate Urban Birds?
  Let kids from South Allegheny Elementary tell you in their words! Watch their video.
  Learn more about South Allegheny kids.

 
• 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 appreciate donations asap! Please help so that we can continue to bring bird study to everyone. Click here to donate or send your check to Celebrate Urban Birds, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850.
  
• Robins nest on tires 9 days in a row!
  
  
• Mini-grant proposals have been reviewed and selected.  See mini-grant winners. 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.

 European Starling by Marian Mendez

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}