Take a Backyard Bird Walk

Based on the acclaimed book
No Student Left Indoors:
Creating a Field Guide to
Your Schoolyard

Helping K-12 Teachers and students
to discover, explore, observe, and record the nature in their schoolyard. For urban, suburban, and rural schools.

Take A Backyard Bird Walk

Take A Backyard Bird Walk teaches you how to find and observe the birds in your backyard, schoolyard, and local park. Learn how to attract birds to your yard, learn what they eat and how to identify them. Take this book with you outdoors and in it you can take field notes in the Field Notes pages, make lists of the birds you see and learn what to do if you find an injured bird. Learn interesting facts about birds and read poetry and stories by other kids about their bird walks. Take A Backyard Bird Walk is recommended by Jeff Corwin, Wildlife biologist and Emmy winning Executive Producer and host of Animal Planet's popular TV series, "The Jeff Corwin Experience."the National Science Teachers Association, Better Homes and Gardens magazine, holds the National Gardening Association's Seal of Approval, and has won The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval. Take A Backyard Bird Walk is a great gift for kids, families, and people who like to watch birds at their feeders. Purchase your signed copy today!

ISBN 978-0-9709754-0-6
By Jane Kirkland

Price	$9.95 U.S.
Trim size:	8 ½ X 11
Page count:	32
Interior:	4 color
Photographs:	34
Illustrations:	11
User Level:	Ages 8 and up
Category:	Juvenile nonfiction
Pub date:	July 2001
Imprint:	Take a Walk® Books
Publisher:	Stillwater Publishing

Here are just a few of the exciting things you'll learn in Take A Backyard Bird Walk:
What are birds?	How will you find birds?	What are field marks?	Where do birds nest?	Bird ID Pages
Learn the physical characteristics that make a bird—a bird. Discover the real reason birds migrate, what they eat, what the shape of a beak can tell us about a bird.	Where will you look for birds? Learn the secret and not-so-secret places to find birds and the best ways to observe them without frightening them away.	When you see a bird, how will you be able to identify the species? Learn how to observe field marks and how to take notes about your observations.	Not all birds nest in trees. Some nest in cavities, on the ground, in bushes, even in wreaths on your front door! Learn where you can look for nests and how to observe them safely.	The Bird ID pages will help you identify some of the most common backyard birds in the United States. Read fascinating facts and figures!