I am so excited about the Great Backyard Bird Count! I’ve been studying the birds in our backyard every day to identify which types we have. I’ve seen as many as 12 different birds in a single day.
Since I last posted, I found an excellent site that gives the 50 most common birds in each state of America —Nifty Fifty State Bird Guides.
To help Sprite learn the birds, I created some flashcards with the most commonly seen birds of our area (west TN) plus a few extras to round out the set. (Depending on where you live, this set may not be suitable for your own backyard.)
And for the big count days, I made a checklist with thumbnails.
The Printables
- [download id=”69″ format=”1″] with 18 common birds.
- [download id=”70″ format=”1″] with (the same) 18 common birds.
I hope that these printables help you for the big weekend.
Thanks for making these! I’m working on a toddler theme and was going to have to make bird flashcards. So glad you saved me some time!
Thank you! I’m so glad you posted this!
Looks great!! Have fun this weekend 🙂
Awesome, we finally saw a bird in our backyard, but it was too fast for us to have a chance to see what it was.
Holy smoke! What a great printable! You know I will have to share on the HNS tomorrow! Thanks so much for putting these together. Even though these are your TN birds, we have almost all of them here in CA too.
Thanks for the great tool!
Except our bluebird has the pretty pink chest! 😉
We have Western Scrub Jays and not Blue Jays too. We have an oak titmouse and not a tufted. We have house sparrows and not song sparrows. We have Spotted towhees. No wrens that I have seen. No cardinals at all. 🙁
So very similar but just a slight variety and easy to adapt to our habitat…love the idea and the format. Thanks and I linked to you today.
NO cardinals? Oh my! Those rank up high on my favorites list!
Thank you so much for these! We are definitely going to start using them. 🙂
I love the 50 nifty! We are on the other side of TN, but grew up on your side, so we have all these birds, too.
sliding over here from Barb’s site.
Wow! wHat an amazing site you have. Awesome printables that I will certainly be using!
Oh! I love it! We have just begun seeing birds in our backyard feeder. My daughter spotted two cassin’s finches this week. They were such a sweet pair. Now, if I could just keep the squirrels out of my feeder!
These are great. Thanks!
When you first posted about the GBBC, we made our own feeder and hung several others. I printed the tally sheet for our area and borrowed a couple ID books from the library. Would you believe we haven’t seen more than three birds TOTAL since then? I was really hoping for a “if you build it, they will come” scenario, but tomorrow’s the day and no birds today. I guess that’s life in the desert. The kicker is that I used to live about 100 miles from where you are now and had oodles of birds all the time. So would you and Sprite count some for us too?!?!
Oh, Tammy, how disappointing! I’m so sorry.
Linked to these from our Facebook page!
I just saved all those links and pages so I can plan a bird watching study!! 🙂
Fantastic! I’m in Arkansas so we have many of those same birds! YAY!
Love the quiz AND the flashcards – thank you so much for sharing!
We had a flock of robins land in our garden yesturday. Also saw about 30 vultures circling while we were driving to church. Too bad we weren’t counting. 🙁
Ooh, neat resources! Thanks for sharing!
Those are great resources! We watch but so far no one wants to count along with me…sigh.
Richele
fun!
I really wish the bird count was international! I’d love to participate then… as it is we could still count, but it’s not quite as fun.
amy in peru
PS. thanks for submitting this to the CM blog carnival 🙂
Great findings Jimmie! Fabulous idea for the flash cards too!
We have ( and counted) all of the birds you mentioned except the woodpecker, with the addition of the common house finch.
Nice to catch up here today!
Deb
Thanks for the great printables! (Didn’t see them in time for BYBC) I have made copies of the checklist to include in our nature journals. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!
You just saved me a lot of time. Thanks so much!
appreciate the checklist! thanks