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Birdchick Blog: Celebrate Urban Birds Grant

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Celebrate Urban Birds Grant

While going through my email account while I was gone, I found that the banders at Carpenter Nature Center retrapped a chickadee last Friday that was at least 8 years old! Crazy!

Say, also in my inbox was an announcement from Cornell Lab of Ornithology inviting organizations and educators to apply for its Celebrate Urban Birds project mini-grants. Mini-grants average $100 to $500 and help fund neighborhood events across North America. Organizations working with traditionally underserved communities are strongly urged to apply.

Celebrate Urban Birds is a free year-round project that collects information from everyday people about 16 species of birds that may be found in urban areas. Participants spend 10 minutes watching birds in their neighborhood and report their observations online. This information helps scientists better understand how birds survive in cities and make use of greens spaces, including parks and gardens.

A local Celebrate Urban Birds event connects the arts, music, dance, and gardening with birds and science. Celebrate Urban Birds mini-grants could be used to support a bird-activity day at a local museum, afterschool, library, or community center, or fund art and gardening activities at your club, business, school, senior center, or neighborhood.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Duck-owning truck driver:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/weird/Trucking_Duck_All__National_.html

1/14/2009 10:08 AM  
Blogger momo said...

Huh. I spent about 15 minutes today parked between the cemetery and the Savers' parking lot off Lake street, just digging the crows arriving to hang out in the trees. They were also eating something (not an animal) in front of a truck parked in front of me. I wonder if someone has been feeding them? I've been seeing them fly in every day when I go to pick my daughter up at South High.

1/14/2009 9:29 PM  

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