Audubon Birding Adventures For Kids: Activities And Ideas For Watching, Feeding, And Housing Our Feathered Friends

Audubon Birding Adventures For Kids: Activities And Ideas For Watching, Feeding, And Housing Our Feathered Friends

Produced in association with the National Audubon Society, Audubon Birding Adventures for Kids introduces you and your children to the love of all things birding. Whether exploring the forest, the backyard, or the city, you and your kids will learn about the habits of North America?s mostpopular songbirds, how to create safe and welcoming environments for them, how toobserve them, and how to construct easy and safe species-appropriatebirdhouses andfeeders for common birds. Thebird ID section includesdescriptions of species andrange maps. Kids will also find20?xciting activities and games (10 indoor, 10 outdoor), including how to form birding groups, scavenger hunts, and a birdsong listening game. In addition to practical, field-tested knowledge and fascinating information about the species covered, this guide is packed with beautifulcolor photography. Since all the information presented is the product of years ofNational Audubon Society expertise, both you and your kids can be sure you're getting the best advice before setting about your birding adventures.About the AuthorElissa Wolfson has written and edited numer?us environmental, botanical, ornithological, and veterinary publications. After graduating from Cornell University, she worked as an environmental educa?or for a decade, earned an MS?egree, and transitioned into environmental journalism. Her clients include the National Audubon Society and Cornell University?s Laboratory of Ornithology and College of Veterinary Medicine. She is former editor of E, The Environmental Magazine, and Cornell Plantations Magazine, current editor of Rationality and Society, author of 101 Cool Games for Cool Cats, and co-author of Audubon Birding Adventures for Kids, the Audubon Birdhouse Book, and the American Museum of Natural History Pocket Birds of North America, Eastern and Western Regions.Margaret A. Barker, a Chesapeake Bay-area writer and educator, grew up watching feeder birds in East Tennessee thanks to her bird-loving mother and grandmother. Covering environmental stories during a broadcast journalism career in the southeast, including at WGST, Atlanta, led to an MS?egree via the Audubon Expedition Institute and an internship with Audubon?s Washington, DC,?ffice. She managed the Cornell Lab of Ornithology?s Project FeederWatch and later the Kids Growing Food school garden program for Cornell?s Department of Education. She writes for newspapers and magazines, and she is co-author of Audubon Birding Adventures for Kids, the Audubon Birdhouse Book, The FeederWatcher?s Guide to Bird Feeding, and Feeding Wild Birds in America.