What will you be doing next week?
Keen to count birds with your children, students or those youngsters in your care?
The annual Aussie Backyard Bird Count is a great way to connect with the birds in your backyard no matter where your backyard happens to be — a suburban backyard, a local park, a patch of forest, down by the beach, or the main street of town.
You can count as many times as you like over the week, BUT remember – each count is completed over a 20-minute period. The data collected assists BirdLife Australia in understanding more about the birds that live where people live.
You can do it in your backyard, your local park or on your verandah. The Aussie Backyard Bird count just wants to know how birds are fairing in your area of Australia – and hopefully increase awareness of how important having trees, shrubs and flowers are for their existence.
We love the birds that visit our backyard even if they regularly have a heated discussion with our chooks.
Teachers & parents – link this in with numeracy!!
Counting one to one correspondence, counting by twos or other groups.
Creating graphs about the different birds seen.
Adding up the time spent outside counting.
And how about Science
How can we make our natural spaces more native bird friendly?
Which Australian birds are your favourites? Find out more about these birds and the types of trees they like to eat from and live in.
Learn about the life cycle, migration paths and population of your favourite bird.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Aussie Backyard survey – can you design something different/better or something to add to its value?
