#31 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation While we are not expert birders or all-knowing conservationists, we hope you’ve enjoyed this series of birding and conservation tips. We hope to provide information about bird conservation for years to come and to always promote birds and birding. But we are just a small part
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Be Positive
#30 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation Unfortunately, the world is full of uncertainty and problems. Many of these require constant attention, debate, and can lead to utter despair. But the one thing that can bring birding and conservation up is a positive attitude. Much of the world’s native habitat has been destroyed
Introduce Someone New to Birding
#29 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation Birding is sometimes hard to understand when discussing with a non-birder. Explaining why you would get up before dawn and count birds for twelve hours in sub-freezing weather is sometimes difficult to someone who would rather spend their Saturday at the mall. But if you can
Drink Shade Grown Coffee
#28 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation Shade-grown coffee has been around for awhile now and is important to bird conservation. Coffee grown in the shade allows for conservation of native habitats in Central and South American countries, as the land doesn’t need to be cleared for “traditional” coffee production. Supporting the companies
Start Your Own Count
#27 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation Each year we participate in multiple Christmas Bird Counts and the Spring Count but that is often not enough. So we’ve decided to start our own counts in the months where there are not official counts. In May we did a 72-hour birding count where we
Participate in Christmas Bird Counts
#26 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation If you’ve never participated in a Christmas Bird Count (CBC) make this be your first year! CBCs are held all over the country and internationally too. A count coordinator will assign you a circle and you count birds around the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. It’s
Purchase Duck Stamps
#25 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Buying Duck Stamps is great for conservation!! 98% of the sale price of Duck Stamps ($15.00 each) goes to national bird conservation. Duck Stamps make great gifts: you can buy one for a birthday or Christmas gift,
Be a Conservation Activist!
#24 of 31 Days to Better Birding and Conservation We try to avoid politics on the blog and this is not a political statement. Instead, this is a call to action to let your local and state politicians know what really matters: Bird Conservation. The environment is often last on the list and it should
