Explore Birds From Home concluded on October 30, 2020. Here is a gallery of some of the birdy objects created by the youth participants. Binoculars (red-tailed hawk) Pecking machine (red-bellied woodpecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker) Projectile machine / catapult (Cooper’s hawk) Hidden bird / camouflage (brown creeper
Participating in Explore Birds From Home 2020, kids 5-10 years old will learn about birds, their super powers, and create bird-inspired objects using common household items. We kicked off the program on August 25th. We went on a treasure hunt for red objects and shared stories about them, compared a red-tailed hawk eye to the…
The seed for Washington Square Park Eco Projects took root in 2013. We launched as WSP Ecology in 2014 with the park’s first online tree map, WSP Eco Map. The map also featured layer of Minetta Brook’s historic and contemporary flows. In 2016, we received our first permit to conduct a long-term wildlife survey from…
EXPLORE BIRDS, our portable bird education program, was invited by New York City Wildflower Week to participate in the first Pelham Bay Park Nature Day on August 31, 2019. Pelham Bay is a beautiful park, and we enjoyed meeting other exhibitors and talking to fellow New Yorkers about birds.
EXPLORE BIRDS went to Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 1, 2019 for an open studio hosted by Practice Space. We took seven specimens to the studio: American Goldfinch, American Kestrel, Cooper’s Hawk, European Starling, Rock Pigeon, and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Would you like to incorporate biological illustration into your studio’s programming? Email us at hello (at) wspecoprojects…