Blue Ridge Bird Observatory (BRBO) educators will visit your school to present programs or implement projects that will help supplement core curriculum. BRBO will visit, evaluate and utilize existing resources on the school grounds, eliminating the need for expensive and time consuming travel.  Programs such as Project Feederwatch and Project Nestwatch can be initially facilitated by BRBO and continued by teachers and classes through the school year. BRBO has established Bluebird nest box trails at several regional schools, and will assist with planning and operating a ‘Migration Celebration’ event at your school. Please contact BRBO to plan and schedule a ‘Schoolyard Science’ program at your school in 2021.

Students are taught how to safely handle birds that live in the schoolyard.

Students go eye-to eye with a schoolyard bird.

The banding table in the schoolyard, where birds are measured and marked before release.

Student releases bird on the school grounds

Middle school students building bird nest boxes.