Green Oases for Urban Birds | Celebrate Urban Birds

Learn how you can improve habitat

Improving habitat is a central component of Celebrate Urban Birds. Learn all about gardening for the birds and green space conservation with Dr. Stephen Kress. Stephen Kress is Vice President for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society and an associate at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology where he developed and teaches a popular Spring Field Ornithology course.

Among his many accomplishments he wrote The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds: Creating Natural Habitats for Properties Large and Small and The National Audubon Society’s The Bird Garden: A comprehensive guide to attracting birds to your backyard throughout the year.

(approximately 45 minutes)

About us

Celebrate Urban Birds strives to co-create bilingual, inclusive, and equity-based community science projects that serve communities that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from birding, conservation, and citizen science. The project seeks to promote better science through equitable knowledge sharing, increased access, centering missing voices and experiences, and intentionally advocating for community ownership and scientific research leadership. Together with participating communities, the project has co-developed processes to co-design, pilot, and implement scientific research and programming while focusing on race and equity.

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