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- Feathery Friends
- Feathery Friends
Feathery Friends
Discover, explore outdoors and get creative with this course on Feathery Friends!
Discover our bird species at Highland Wildlife Park and Edinburgh Zoo with stories, BFF quizzes and games!
Visit your local green space and try your hand at the RSPB Birdwatch while using some of our advice to help support native birds! How many birds can you spot? What colours are they? How big are they?
Get creative with our final feathery challenge and share all your discoveries with us @RZSSLearning.
- RSPB's Birdwatch
RSPB's Birdwatch
RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch
Take part in the RSPB's Schools' Birdwatch from any green space - just submit your results before 22 February!
Find out more!Attracting Birds
Pick up some of our tips for attracting birds to your garden or windowsill.
Get startedWho lives here?
Use our template and guide to make a species sign for a bird that you spotted during your bird watch, just like we have for animals at the zoo!
Template and guide here - Camouflage Game
Camouflage Game
Play our brand-new feathery camouflage game and see if you can uncover a few of our well-known and lesser-known bird species! Then, try matching them up to their facts!
Feathery Camouflage GameUsing this game's feathers for inspiration, you could draw your own newly discovered species for your Creative Challenge entry below! ✏️ Then share it with us @RZSSLearning!
- Creative Challenge
Creative Challenge
Collect some fallen leaves and twigs outside and use them to create one of our RZSS birds! Use the selection here for some ideas, or choose your own!
Creative Challenge - Who's your BFF (Best Feathery Friend)?
- Socorro's Story
- Want to know more about other bird species?
Want to know more about other bird species?
Meet Irwin, one of Edinburgh Zoo's brilliant rainbow lorikeets, and learn more about the species' brilliant behaviours in this video thanks to Lynsey and Amy.
Lorikeet EncounterWaddle on over to our penguin activities to explore three fiesty flightless bird species and discover some penguin poetry and conservation!
Read all about the adventures of Polly the puffin and learn more about these amazing birds in our interactive story! You can also get crafty too...
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