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- Jake Richardson
- May 22, 2010
- 11:10 am
- 82 comments
An online guide to birds and birdwatching has won a Webby Award. It was made and is maintained by Cornell University’s Ornithology Lab. The site educates visitors about 585 bird species and bird behavior. It features Nest Cams, and offers a volunteer project where you can sign up and participate in their research simply by counting and tagging online bird images.
A Sound of the Week feature highlights the song of a specific bird, which you can play on your computer. There are also sound and video clips for 51 common bird species.
A section on teaching others about birds could be useful for educators or those who just want to share their enthusiasm for birds with friends or family members. Especially useful is the bird identification skills section. It lists four keys for identifying birds:
Size & Shape
Color Pattern
Behavior
Habitat
If you like birds, try out the site and forward to your fellow bird enthusiasts.
The Webby Awards are June 14 in New York City. This year the best of the Web competition received nearly 10,000 entries. The annual competition began in 1996.
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Read more: Nature, Nature & Wildlife, birds, cornell university, education, webby awards
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82 comments
+ add your ownThank you Jake, for Sharing this!
great news
Hope this helps arouse public awareness on and respect to the birds
Absolutely deserved! The website is a really good tool and is very well organized.
cool! Congrats!!
Great :)
thanks, will re-post for a friend known as Bird-lady!
Thank you
Thanks
I have been a member of the Cornell Lab. of Ornithology; hav eurged people at Care2 to check it out!
Good for them!
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