Fledgling Birders Program | National Biodiversity Parks Resource
type: Program Anyone who actively tries to foster an
appreciation of birds and birding in others is a "fledging
birder". The Fledging Birders program is a key component to the
environmental education mission of National Biodiversity Parks,
a 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation organization. All the
strategies on this site have been used by our staff to introduce
students to bird watching and develop NBP's upcoming outreach
programs. The program's director discovered birding "later in
life". Shortly after becoming obsessed with birds, he also
became a father. He feared that pending parental duties meant
the end of his birding days. Wrong! He quickly discovered the
immense pleasure of sharing birds and nature with his children
and wanted to pass this along to others as well. The National
Schoolyard Birding Challenge is a monthly bird watching contest
open to students in all public and private schools in the
contiguous United States. NSBC's main obje