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Yoshion cherry, fall foliage, Nov 2020, Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park – Nov 2020

Thank you for being a voter during the recent General Election. We are excited about the next steps in the movements for racial equity and environmental justice. We wrapped up Explore Birds From Home last month. We had lots of STEAMy fun! Check out some of the objects created by the youth participants. Many of

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Explore Birds From Home 2020 – Objects

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

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Washington Square Park – Oct 2020

This initiative is led by a Black woman and its bird program is run by a white woman accomplice. Black Lives Matter to us, still! We encourage you to complete the 2020 Census and to vote. Vote early and in-person, if you can do so safely. There are three sessions remaining in Explore Birds From

Explore Birds From Home 2020 – Session 1

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

Explore Birds From Home program flyer

Explore Birds From Home

Kids 5-10 years old, join Eco Projects + KoKo NYC for free bird natural history and maker classes! We will learn about birds, their super powers, and create bird-inspired objects using common household items. There is a new theme each class. The first theme is BINOCULARS and class will be held on Tuesday, August 25th,