This section provides information about outreach and education tools, as well as participatory science projects that engage the public in collecting information about birds. Many participatory science projects already exist, allowing land trusts to easily tap into online monitoring tools, link to volunteers already collecting information, or even access useful data within their service areas.
Great Backyard Bird CountThe Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is a global, four-day event each February that invites people everywhere to count birds and share their observations online through eBird or the Merlin Bird ID app. Organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society, and Birds Canada, the GBBC provides a snapshot of late-winter bird populations across the world.
- Celebrate Urban Birds
Celebrate Urban Birds is a citizen-science project developed to reach diverse urban audiences who do not already participate in science or scientific investigation. The project collects data from participants, providing valuable knowledge of how different environments influence birds in urban areas.
- NestWatch
NestWatch is a nationwide nest-monitoring program used to study the current condition of breeding bird populations and how they may be changing over time as a result of climate change, habitat degradation and loss, expansion of urban areas, and the introduction of non-native plants and animals.
- Project FeederWatch
A November-April survey of birds that visit backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America, Project FeederWatch is operated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada.
- Birdability
Through education, outreach and advocacy, Birdability works to ensure the birding community and the outdoors are welcoming, inclusive, safe and accessible for everybody.
- Latino Outdoors
Latino Outdoors strives to inspire, connect, and engage Latino communities in the outdoors and embrace cultura y familia as part of the outdoor narrative, ensuring our history, heritage, and leadership are valued and represented.
- Outdoor Afro
Outdoor Afro has become the nation’s leading, cutting edge network that celebrates and inspires Black connections and leadership in nature. We are a national not for profit organization with leadership networks around the country. With more than 100 leaders in 56 cities around the country, we connect thousands of people to nature experiences, who are changing the face of conservation.
- Feminist Bird Club
The Feminist Bird Club is dedicated to promoting inclusivity in birding while fundraising and providing a safe opportunity for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, BIPOC, and women to connect with the natural world.
- American Birding Association Code of Birding Ethics
Practice and promote respectful, enjoyable, and thoughtful birding as defined in this code published by the American Birding Association (ABA).
