Education Programs
Let us bring our birds to you! Our mission is to provide powerful connections with birds, their stories and humans. We have witnessed firsthand how this can have a lasting impact on people of all ages and backgrounds. Our birds are worked with using the most progressive, scientific methods of choice based protocols, ensuring a meaningful, engaging program that highlights adaptations, conservation, and connection to the earth’s incredible biomes.
Our programs can be customized to the age group of your choice, and unless requested or noted otherwise, involve three to four birds each. We bring our own equipment, and programs can be indoors or outdoors. Our birds have performed in large events, school graduations, festivals, to private gatherings, corporate events, museums, and school classrooms.
We travel throughout San Diego county and to surrounding areas with our wildlife conservation education programs.
Available Programs
Radical Raptors
This program explores the different types of raptors, or birds of prey, from owls to falcons to hawks. We show off the different adaptations that makes each raptor unique, how they hunt, fly, see, and experience the world differently, and even listen to a few sounds of raptor species.
Birds in Your Backyard
The first wild animal we usually experience in our day is likely a bird, from a songbird calling or a foraging in our urban spaces. Southern California, and San Diego county, is known as a biodiversity hotspot, and we are lucky to come across a wider variety of animals and plants than almost anywhere else in North America. This makes us extremely lucky to have such a wide variety of birds, but we may not aware. From ravens to falcons, migratory bird species and vultures, our beautiful Southern California has many habitats for special birds.
Birds of the World
A program all about birds from around the world fulfilling important roles in their habitats. Many of us may never get to see some of these birds in the wild, but our activities thousands of miles away still impact one another’s survival. This colorful program highlights an around the world experience that brings together stories of conservation success and ideas of hope and innovation. Biodiversity rocks!
Free Flight Bird Programs
Avian Behavior International is renown for their free flight programs. Our birds have flown in large zoo programs, high school graduations, weddings, funerals, private events, and many other locations. Contact us today to see if your event is suitable for a free flight program.
Environmental Education Initiative
This four part series can be scheduled throughout the year, season, semester, or quarter. The programs are designed to build on one another and complete a set of objectives:
Objectives
To engage firsthand with birds and their biofacts in ways that reflect reverence for their way of life and how to safely interact with their world.
To enhance the community’s ties with the land and wild residents to promote balance, guardianship, and respect
To introduce a soil up initiative to recognize the habits that foster environmentally healthy practices that impact the avifauna we share our space with.
Birds and the Bugs
This program covers the importance of bird conservation from the soil up. From beneficial bugs to the chemicals we use, discover a how your daily habits can impact birds. Goals are to learn about the food web and predator and prey relationships
Avian Superheroes
Migratory birds tie continents and hemispheres together. Learn some of their incredible feats, adaptations, and influences on their environment. Goals are to Identify birds by sound, learn of potential toxins, how to be a superhero for birds
Raptor Awareness in San Diego County
San Diego is a biodiversity hotspot, which means we are lucky to experience nature all around us. What do raptors and other birds need to survive? Goals are to discuss habitats, flight adaptations, and the differences in raptors.
Fledge Wings
What to do you do when you see a baby bird or wild baby animal? We talk about myths and best practices for all ages. Goals are to talk about how birds learn to fly and what citizens can do to help young birds stay wild.