LEARN ABOUT CREATURES

(IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS)

this project is called LOCAL BIOLOGY (until we think of something better)

Tiny Field Guides

Our plans for the summer

There are a few of us who decided that we really will make some tiny field guides for our own neighborhoods. Subjects so far include: birds, ants, trees, bees, bike sound mapping.

We are going to try sharing these with the people in our neighborhood. We will let you know how it goes.

If you want to get involved, it's easy. Pick something you want to learn about, and make a little guide. Share it with us and we will be happy to give you some feedback.

What is a Tiny Field Guide?

Tiny Field Guides are little books made from 1 piece of printer paper. The paper is folded & cut to make 8 little pages — a front, back, and 6 pages for descriptions and observations.

Through this website, we can upload our guides, and digitize the content in the guides. This will make the content of the guides searchable through the internet. This means people in our neighborhoods might find our little guides!

(we will make a picture of this for you!)

Event (for people)
First Annual Save the Frogs Day
2009, April 28 (All day) America/Chicago

Some of us are aware the frogs are incredibly threatened right now (see why). Also, 2008 was the "Year of the Frog," in which many aquariums & zoos did active work to increase knowledge about the situation of frogs.

Save the Frogs Day is April 28th, and the website for this new holiday has suggestions about how you can help educate others about frogs.

These are some things we can do on this website:

  • Create tiny field guides about frogs in your neighborhood to share with others
  • Add 'Natural Events' to localbiology. All you have to do is lookup frog lifecycle information and add that to our public calendar.
  • Attend or 'do' a frog-related learning event (on or in frog mating season.) For example, some Minneapolitans will be going frog monitoring again, as we did last year. But this time we're doing sound recordings.
  • Post frog-related monitoring volunteer opportunities
City or Town: 
Minneapolis
savethefrogs.com/day
Frog art contest
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Place
San Francisco

San Francisco is exciting for finding wildlife within the bounds of the city. There are loads of parks, lots of organizations that celebrate different aspects of nature. You can see lots of hawks, an occasional Great Horned Owl looking over the entire landscape of the city from the top of the hill near the Castro that is next to the Randall Museum.

San Francisco is home to amazing gardeners.

You will see many hummingbirds, bees and a wide variety of birds.

Type of ecosystems: 
Urban Parkland
Local Bloggers: 
Rachel!
Walter!