Click on the links below for Lesson Plans, Project Ideas, and Additional Resources.

With special thanks to John Van de Graaff for allowing Story Preservation to use his extraordinary photographs of birds.  To see more, go to: www.birdsbyjohn.com

DON KROODSMA, Observing Nature Birds

Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School

Science, English Language Arts, English Literacy, Visual Arts

LINKS of INTEREST

Smithsonian Nature Journal

Don Kroodsma’s Suggestions on How to Record Birdsong:

Techniques

How to Record Birds

Don Kroodsma’s Seeing Birds Sound

Listen to his recordings and see the sonograms

Seeing Bird Sounds

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

All About Birdsong

NestWatch – Help Scientists Collect Valuable Data on the Successes and Failures of Nesting Birds / and Learn how to build birdhouses appropriate to your region!

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Macaulay Libary

Scientists worldwide use the Macaulay Library (ML) audio and video recordings to better understand and preserve our planet. Teachers use ML sounds, videos, and curricula to illustrate the natural world and create exciting interactive learning opportunities.

All About Bird Anatomy / Online interactive

The Macaulay Library BirdSleuth Project

BOOKS OF INTEREST: 

Click here for a listing of books by Burroughs Medal and National Book Award-winning writer Don Kroodsma.

Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth

Ages 3 – 7.

In this revised edition of the 1961 title, a father and child take a walk together and listen to the sounds around them.

APPS OF INTEREST:

Merlin Bird ID – Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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