Counting Birds: The Idea That Helped Save Our Feathered Friends (Young Naturalist)

A 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K–12 and a 2019 Best STEM Book for K–12 Students (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council) and winner of the 2019 Riverby Award.Everyday kids learn how they can help protect bird species, near and far, with Counting Birds—the real-life story of bird counting and watching. What can you do to help endangered animals and make a positive change in our environment? Get counting! Counting Birds is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces kids to the idea of bird counts and bird watches. Along the way, they will learn about Frank Chapman, who used his bird knowledge and magazine Bird-Lore to found the first annual bird count. Bird counting helps professional researchers collect data, share expertise, and spread valuable information to help all kinds of birds around the world, from condors to hawks to kestrels and more. Counting Birds introduces kids to a whole feathered world that will fascinate and inspire them to get involved in conservation and become citizen scientists.