Bluebird by Ken Quong.

Bluebird photo by prize-winning photograher Ken Quong — one of our BIRD DAY PRIZES .

Take the Bird Day Challenge! It's fund-raising and fun-raising.

1) Enjoy one (or part) of a day birding while reducing your fossil fuel footprint. You could bike, walk, paddle, sit, carpool or use public transit, etc.

2) We encourage you to ask your friends to sponsor you to raise money for bird conservation. Choose a worthy local conservation initiative or direct funds to our chosen conservation projects. If it is helpful, use our generic pledge form.

3) Check out our prize categories. There are special prizes for beginner birders, youth birders, school groups, and those who do a “big sit” or “yard day”. Also, some prizes involve writing a short description of an experience during your bird day. We also have the traditional categories of most species seen.

4) After your Bird Day, please email us. We'd like to know where you went birding, what special birds you saw and much money you raised. In order to qualify for a prize, send us the details applicable to that prize category. Enter as many categories as you wish. Last date for entries is June 21, 2008. Prizes will be awarded after we get home from Bird Year, in mid-July 2008.

5) If you are unable to take part in the Bird Day Challenge yourself, please sponsor David Allen Sibley who is our "feature birder." It's simple:
• Make a donation to either one of our US or Canadian bird conservation projects on David's behalf. Of course if you have another worthy conservation charity you'd like to support, please do so. Then email us to let us know and we'll enter you in a prize draw.
• If you think it would be fun to sponsor David on a "per bird" basis, please email us and tell us what your sponsorship will be (ie 50 cents per bird or whatever you wish). After David's "bird day challenge" we'll let you know what your total is.

Check out who else is taking part in the Bird Day Challenge.

Do your Bird Day Challenge sometime during the spring migration of 2008. If you are in the southern hemisphere, earlier is fine.

Our own challenge is to find participants in as many states, provinces, territories, countries and continents as we can! Scroll down for maps. If you live in an “blank” area, let us know.

Across the continent

And Around the World!

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