Hospitality
You are the first and last impression-- AND you get to handle $. As guests come in welcome them, ask questions on our entrance survey, count the number of guests who come in, handout the Bird Day Passport, and ask guests to sign a photo release. If they sign the photo release give them one of our owl photo stickers so the photographers know which guests they can photograph. As guests exit please ask them to fill out an exit survey. You will also sell TAS hats, shirts, and water bottles.
Guests will also hand in their passports to you, make sure they have all 8 slots stamped before you hand out prizes!
Community Science & Atlantic Flyway
Now that guests have learned how to identify birds this table shows them how they can use their new found knowledge! You will help guests download and set up the Merlin Bird ID app, provide guests a list of websites where they can access more birding information, and help peeps register/ get information on birding activities like the Great Backyard Bird Count and TAS events.
You will also talk to guests about the Atlantic Flyway, the Atlantic Coast bird migration route and the Migratory Bird Act. Guests will be able to sign a petition to protect the 100-year old law to protect birds from industry and more.
Leica Store Miami Birds and Binoculars
What’s one of the most important tool for birders? Binoculars! At this table you will teach guests how to use binoculars. Ask the guests to spot 5 different birds (silhouette or colored) using the binoculars. After they find a bird, ask them to identify it using the table key. Parents will be able to sign up for updates on Leica Store Miami Sports Optics and Bird-related Leica Lounges with Tropical Audubon Society. Make sure you stamp guest passports when they’ve completed this table!
Color a Bird
Guests will color and learn to identify birds using their field mark coloring sheets. you will help guests find the bird that corresponds with the coloring sheet.
Build a Bird
At this table you will assist guests in creating cute piping plover chicks out of cotton balls, paint, seeds, and toothpicks! Please wear something you don’t mind getting paint on just in case.
What’s your Wingspan?
How does your wingspan measure up? What’s my wingspan is a table where guests can measure themselves to birds! You will ask guests to hold out their arms horizontally measure them from fingertip to fingertip. Then you compare how long their “wingspan” is compared to the birds on our wingspan poster. A camera will be provided for the booth to take take pictures of the guests. Please take the email addresses of the parents of whose kids you photograph. Please make sure guests have a photo release owl sticker before you take pictures!
Owl Pellets
What did the owl have for dinner? You can find out at the owl pellet station! At this table, guests will dissect owl pellets using the provided tools to find animal bones. Help guest identify what bone they find and which animals they belong to using the handy dandy bone chart.
Feathers
Why are flamingos pink? Why do some some bird feathers shine in the light? Find out at out feathers table! At this table you will show guests different feathers and explain where feather pigments come from and the purpose of different feathers. Help guests use the microscope to get an up-close look at feathers!
All about Bird Houses
At this table you will assist guests with build their very own birdhouse!
Eat Like a Bird
Ever wonder what it feels like to hunt like a heron or scoop like a spoonbill? Now you can find out for yourself! Eat Like a Bird is a game where guests will different tools that simulate bird beaks to try pick up as many fish and “worms” out of our wetland buckets. There are two, 1 minute, rounds: blindfolded and un-blindfolded. Compare how much food guests caught in each round and discuss how polluted water affects how birds hunt.
