Head outside in your own yard, or neighborhood, at a nearby park and look for birds.
Many birds typically migrate through North America in the fall from late August through November. The timing may vary depending on the species and where you live.
Can you spot any large flocks of birds flying south? How many bird behaviors can you find?
Let’s Get Started
Each kind of bird is specially adapted to a particular habitat, where it finds what it needs to live. Woodpeckers need trees, sparrows live in shrubs and thickets, ducks need water, and so on. What you see will depend in large part on when and where you look.
Find a place to sit and see if you can observe birds doing any of the following bird behaviors on the Bingo Card.
Document Your Discoveries
- Using the Nature Notebook as a guide, copy or draw a large square on a piece of cardboard or paper.
- Use a ruler and a pencil or marker to divide the large square into 9 smaller squares.
- Write or draw one of each of these behaviors on your card: flocking, bathing, feeding, hiding, giving an alarm call, preening, singing, flying, nesting.
- Bonus: Make several Bird Bingo Cards and play with family and friends.
