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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

Washington Square Park – Our Past Work, 2018-2014

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, Pelham Bay Park Nature Day 2019

Explore Birds at Pelham Bay Park Nature Day

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.

bird specimens from WSP Eco Projects ed collection

Explore Birds at Practice Space in Cambridge, MA

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

EXPLORE BIRDS with the Uni Project in Union Square

Your Bird Story in East Harlem, NYC

Join us this Friday, July 26, 2019 at the EXPLORE NYC cart where we will be recording the bird stories of everyday New Yorkers. Find us at East 106th St and Third Ave, 9:30 am – 1 pm. See you there!