NAP Ornithologist Juliet Berger leads a bird walk at the capped portion of the landfill at the Wheeler Service Center
Join us to learn more about birds!
Hone your bird-watching skills by looking for the breeding birds of Ann Arbor! View our field checklist here (pdf). Bring it along on one of our nature hikes or bird-watching walks.
Ann Arbor's parks are great places to see birds with the whole family. NAP's Ornithologist, Juliet Berger, leads several bird walks in the spring, summer, and fall seasons for interested bird watchers. There will typically be a walk at Gallup Park in May, to look for newly-arrived nesting birds like the Baltimore Oriole; a walk in June at the Wheeler Service Center, to look for field birds such as Bobolink and Meadowlark; and a walk in September at Mary Beth Doyle Park, to see migrating shorebirds and warblers. These bird walks are family-friendly, and Gallup and Mary Beth Doyle Parks are handicap-accessible.
Please see below or check our calendar for information on upcoming bird walks.
Ten ways YOU can help birds thrive in human-populated areas: http://www.audubon.org/conservation/bird-friendly-communities
Found a nest? Want to help monitor it (hooray participatory science)! Check out Cornell's NestWatch program here: https://nestwatch.org/
And, of course- you can get some tips on how to plan your garden to help feed and sustain wildlife at NWF's "Garden for Wildlife" webpage here: https://www.shopnwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/index.cat!
