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State of the Birds Report 2025 -
eBird In May 2025, Win a Free Spot in the Cornell Lab’s Bird Painting Course -
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Macaulay Library Macaulay Library Adds Larger Photos and More Data to Their Archive Pages -
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eBird eBird App Now Tracks Your Birding Route -
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eBird The Female Bird Song Project -
K–12 Education Flap to the Future Lesson Plan: Learn About Adaptions for Flight -
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K–12 Education Am I Like You? Teacher’s Guide: Fun Activities Target National Education Standards for Grades K-3 -
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Living Bird Magazine 30 Years of Project FeederWatch Yield New Insights About Backyard Birds -
Great Backyard Bird Count 2016 Great Backyard Bird Count Photo Contest Winners -
Project FeederWatch Ida Sheppard Wins 20-year FeederWatch Lifetime Award -
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eBird eBird's 2017 Checklist-a-day Challenge -
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Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative: Birds on Your Land -
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K–12 Education Dissecting the Food Web: An Owl Pellet Investigation -
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eBird Breeding and Behavior Codes Included in the Updated eBird App -
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eBird New eBird Profile Pages: Share Your Birding Experiences With Others -
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eBird Upload Your Historic and Longterm Data to eBird to Help Chart Bird Abundance and Distribution -
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K–12 Education Resources to Empower Youth to Make a Difference for Birds -
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Earth Day 2016: Get Inspired by Maya Lin's What is Missing? Website -
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K–12 Education Learn the Alphabet With an A-Z of Birds: From Albatross to Zebra Finch -
K–12 Education Join BirdSleuth for an Educators Retreat in Peru, July 2017 -
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eBird eBird Status Updates—98% of the World’s Birds Now Represented, Record Birds, Plan Trips, and Help Birds Globally -
Pass Along the Passion of Birding: “Pledge to Fledge” a New Birder Today -
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K–12 Education Download Six Free Lessons on Bird Communication -
K–12 Education Advice from Teachers on Starting a Bird Club -
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eBird Annual Changes in Hummingbird Migration Revealed by Birders' Sightings -
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eBird “Getting Rusty” Take Two: Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz 2015 -
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Living Bird Magazine We Are the Cornell Lab of Ornithology -
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Top 10 2014 Holiday Gifts for Birders and for Birds -
Help Conserve Bird Habitat by Putting California Rice on Your Plate -
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K–12 Education How to Create a Great Bird Garden for Your School -
K–12 Education Students Learn When They Spend Just 15 Minutes With Birds—Here's How -
eBird BirdQuest: A Way to Engage Kids in eBird -
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eBird Caleb Frome, 2014 Zeiss Young Birders Network eBirding Challenge Winner -
eBird eBird's Missing Species—Just 400 of the World's 10,324 Have Yet to Be Recorded -
Celebrate Urban Birds Nuestro Futuro: Bilingual Birding in New York -
Project FeederWatch BirdSpotter 2013-14 Photo Contest Winners and Gallery -
Living Bird Magazine Growing Native Plants Is a Simple Recipe for Helping Warblers -
Bird Academy Explore Feathers With New, Free Resources From Bird Academy -
Help Scientists Find Out What's Happening to Rusty Blackbirds -
Conservation Science Learn the Basics of Bird-Friendly and Shade-Grown Coffee [Video] -
Bird Cams Watch a Fluffy Albatross Chick Grow Up on Our Newest Cam -
Great Backyard Bird Count Great Backyard Bird Count—Help & FAQs -
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K–12 Education How to Choose a Field Guide for Kids -
K–12 Education 8 Tips for Teaching Groups Outdoors -
K–12 Education Show Your Projects on the BirdSleuth Action Map -
K–12 Education About BirdSleuth Inquiry-Based Science Curriculum for Teachers, Homeschoolers, and Others -
K–12 Education Lesson Kits: Discovering Bird Diversity -
K–12 Education BirdSleuth Games, Cards, and Posters for Teachers and Classrooms -
K–12 Education Lesson Kits: Nature Detectives -
K–12 Education Lesson Kits: Most Wanted Birds -
K–12 Education Lesson Kits: Habitat Connections -
K–12 Education Lesson Ideas: Feathered Friends Activities -
K–12 Education Science Investigator's Kit for Homeschoolers -
K–12 Education Lesson Ideas: Homeschooler's Guide to Project FeederWatch -
Birds-of-Paradise Project Lesson Plans: Evolution in Paradise -
Bird Cams Lesson Plan: Explore Life Cycles Through Nesting Birds -
Celebrate Urban Birds Citizen Science as an Instrument for Youth Development -
K–12 Education Free Teaching Resources for Educators -
K–12 Education Resources for 4-H Youth Development Programs to Use Birds for Teaching Science -
K–12 Education Resources for Afterschool Programs to Use Birds for Teaching Science -
K–12 Education Resources for Informal Educators to Use Birds for Teaching Science -
K–12 Education BirdSleuth Investigator: a Science Journal for Students, by Students -
K–12 Education Teachers: Take Your Students on a Citizen Science Bird Quest -
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K–12 Education Resources for Homeschoolers to Use Birds for Teaching Science -
K–12 Education Resources for Teachers to Use Birds for Teaching Science -
Our 2013 List of Holiday Gift Ideas Will Help You and Help the Birds -
NestWatch How to NestWatch: Nest Monitoring Protocol -
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Project FeederWatch Birding and Feeding Tips From FeederWatch Participants -
K–12 Education How Address Next Generation Science Standards With Birds -
NestWatch How to NestWatch: Code of Conduct -
Project FeederWatch Ideas for FeederWatch in the Classroom -
Project FeederWatch FeederWatch for Groups -
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eBird A New eBird Portal for Birders in Central America -
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