Learning by doing

Play.
Observe.
Discover.

An activity center for meeting Puerto Rico birds with your eyes, ears, hands, and a lot of curiosity.

Choose an activity

Choose your adventure

An activity for every kind of young naturalist.

Three challenges you can do today

10 min

Color detective

Find a bird with two different colors. Where does each color appear? Draw the pattern without getting close.

20 min

Sound map

Sit quietly. Mark front, back, left, or right each time you hear a bird.

30 min

Bird restaurant

Watch what a bird eats. Sort the food as seed, fruit, nectar, insect, fish, or something else.

Printable sheet · Backyard expedition

The five-clue challenge

Birds of Puerto Rico

You do not need to know the bird's name. Describe the evidence first; then use the atlas to investigate.

  1. I heard a bird voice
  2. I saw a perched bird
  3. I saw a flying bird
  4. I found two colors in its feathers
  5. I observed a behavior: eating, bathing, singing, or collecting material
Draw the bird or one important clue

Three words that describe it

One question I want to investigate