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More Bird Resources for Backyard Bird Count

February 16, 2011 By Jimmie Quick 27 Comments

Tufted Titmouse, one of my favorite backyard birds

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.

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Comments

  1. Maureen says

    February 16, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    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!

    Reply
  2. Tatiana says

    February 16, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    Thank you! I’m so glad you posted this!

    Reply
  3. Alex says

    February 17, 2011 at 6:29 am

    Looks great!! Have fun this weekend ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  4. Ticia says

    February 17, 2011 at 8:02 am

    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.

    Reply
  5. Barb-Harmony Art Mom says

    February 17, 2011 at 10:29 am

    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!

    Reply
    • Jimmie says

      February 17, 2011 at 1:16 pm

      Except our bluebird has the pretty pink chest! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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      • Barb-Harmony Art Mom says

        February 17, 2011 at 6:08 pm

        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. ๐Ÿ™

        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.

        Reply
        • Jimmie says

          February 17, 2011 at 7:28 pm

          NO cardinals? Oh my! Those rank up high on my favorites list!

          Reply
  6. Melody says

    February 17, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    Thank you so much for these! We are definitely going to start using them. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  7. Heather says

    February 17, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    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.

    Reply
  8. Amanda says

    February 17, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    sliding over here from Barb’s site.
    Wow! wHat an amazing site you have. Awesome printables that I will certainly be using!

    Reply
  9. Robin at Stone Soup Homeschool Network says

    February 17, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    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!

    Reply
  10. Alexandra says

    February 17, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    These are great. Thanks!

    Reply
  11. Tammy says

    February 17, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    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?!?!

    Reply
    • Jimmie says

      February 17, 2011 at 7:28 pm

      Oh, Tammy, how disappointing! I’m so sorry.

      Reply
  12. Cindy says

    February 17, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    Linked to these from our Facebook page!

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  13. Amber Pamper says

    February 18, 2011 at 7:24 am

    I just saved all those links and pages so I can plan a bird watching study!! ๐Ÿ™‚

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  14. Melissa says

    February 18, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    Fantastic! I’m in Arkansas so we have many of those same birds! YAY!

    Reply
  15. CarrieF says

    February 19, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    Love the quiz AND the flashcards – thank you so much for sharing!

    Reply
  16. Melissa Telling says

    February 21, 2011 at 7:18 am

    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. ๐Ÿ™

    Reply
  17. Amber says

    February 22, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    Ooh, neat resources! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  18. Richele says

    February 22, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    Those are great resources! We watch but so far no one wants to count along with me…sigh.
    Richele

    Reply
  19. amy in peru says

    February 24, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    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 ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
  20. Debbie says

    February 26, 2011 at 8:45 am

    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

    Reply
  21. Eddie says

    February 28, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    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!

    Reply
  22. Heather says

    March 25, 2014 at 10:00 am

    You just saved me a lot of time. Thanks so much!

    Reply
  23. Eliza says

    April 16, 2014 at 10:10 am

    appreciate the checklist! thanks

    Reply

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