Building for Birds

Ruby Hammond, a doctoral graduate student with Tad Theimer's lab at Northern Arizona University, recently presented on Flagstaff birds to Killip  Elementary School's after school Habitat Class. The class, led by teacher Mable Wauneka-Goodwin and volunteer Moses Aruguete, is building a bird-friendly habitat in the school's Luna Courtyard.

Ruby shares information about Flagstaff birds with the Habitat class

The fourteen 2nd and 3rd graders already knew a lot of information about both birds and bats, and had many bird stories to share with Ruby! They are all enthusiastic about creating better habitat for birds near Killip and learned more about the local birds and their food and nesting preferences from Ruby's presentation.

Ruby also taught the students some good tricks for identifying birds. Now the students (and you) can distinguish between a raven and a crow!

Ruby's "Urban birds in Flagstaff" presentation and information on nesting preferences  is now located on the STEM City Resource page. Moses Aruguete also provided information on building nesting shelves for Robins and Cardinals on this same page.

Killip's Habitat Class hopes you will help feed and house the birds this winter!