Bird Resources!

This list below includes resources we shared during Our Changing Planet 2020-21

Tools to help you learn:

• Try out these apps from the Cornell Labs - BirdNET and Merlin

• How to draw a bird - John Muir Laws

• Lesson from the Bower Bird Next time - Trees - bring your moon journal to share out about what you learned from the process

• Why Do Starlings Flock in Murmurations?

• Cornell Lab of Ornothrology

• Birds of North America YouTube Series - with Jason Ward

• National Audubon

• Explore.org has webcams for bird watching including a California Condor's nest in Big Sur

• Peregrine Falcon webcams at UCB

Artist to explore

• Liz Wahid - website , photo of her with all her birds

Birders to Learn about

• Drew Lanham: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers - Interview with Jason Ward

• Audubon Society - Black Birders

• Raising the Profile of Black Briders

Readings to Inspire

• From the New Yorker: The Strangness of our Animal Bonds

• Emily Roberts: Here's an NY Times article about a family exploring and observing birds together during their time at home due to pandemic

• From the Center for Humans and Nature a new enchanting piece by Lisa María Madera titled The Empathy of Birds: Lessons from Pacha Mama in the Face of Despair

• Richard Prum

  • - The Bird Filled World of Richard Prum

  • Check out Richards book: The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us

Just for Fun (who doesn't need a good laugh these days!)

• Saturday Night Live “The Birds”