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Resources

Nature Canada is here to ensure that your World Migratory Bird Day event is a success! Please check out our resources below and be sure to make use of Environment for the Americas downloadable resources to help you put together an event that celebrates your community’s birds and educates event attendees about the importance of designing shared spaces to create more Bird Friendly Cities and Communities!

• Toolkit - Tips to Host a Successful Event! 

• Junior Birder Guides

• Bird Friendly City Resources 

• Canadian Standards Association - Bird Safe Design Guidelines (2019) 

• Bird Friendly City Toolkit - Ecological Design Lab (Anglais seluement) 

• Bird Friendly Coffee Benefits - Nature Canada 

• Free-Roaming Cats and Birds 

• WonderGrove for Birds  - animated series of educational videos

• Downloadable Resources - Environment for the Americas

• Free Webinar Series - Environment for the Americas

• Printable Colouring Page

Event ideas could include:

• inviting your local municipal decision-makers and staff to a bird walk in an important conservation area alongside documenting what you see

• tutorial on how to use eBird, NatureCounts, and iNaturalist; involving youth and children in birding through kid-friendly demonstrations

• celebrating with a community-led festival with arts, crafts, panelists and more!