Develop a Bird Feeder Watch List For many years your Mom has fed the wild birds. She does this year round. This year, she plans to do something special. Your family will be a citizen scientists. Your family will be participating in Project FeederWatch.

You are going to observe the bird feeder each day and count the birds that come to the feeder for 20 minutes.

Your job is to develop a list of 20 bird species that may come to your feeder during the winter.
This will make it easier to collect the data for the project.

Make an appropriate bird species list.

 

Examine the project's guidelines. Identify what tools you would need to collect the data.

How would the feeder's placement impact the tools an observer would need?

 

Consider the data from the most recent annual Christmas Bird Count conducted by the Audubon Society. Add to the list a rare bird or two that has been sighted in your area in the past.

What factors would increase the likely hood that these birds would come to the feeder?

 

No Feeder? No Problem - Watch a feeder using this Bird FeederCam.

Citizen Science - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Collecting Data (Int/Adv)

Gap Analysis is a scientific means for assessing habitats & if native animal & plant species are being protected.