Bird Life

Food, Water and Shelter
Suggested Birding Activities
Camouflage and Vision
 Birding Checklist
Glossary

Plant Life

 

 

 

 

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Science: Bird Life - Birding Checklist

 

 

 

Mergansers are diving ducks that have special beaks adapted (with teeth-like lamellae) for feeding on mollusks and fish and are often seen along the Greenway during winter months.

 

 

 

 

Whatever time of year, if you do go birding along the Concord, keep a checklist and submit your observations to the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust. Your submission will remain on file, accessible for use in current and future studies on bird migration, climate change, pollution, and habitat loss.

For more information on birding, check out the following websites:

• Focus on Birds in General
: Learn more at www.ebird.org
• Focus on Nesting Birds – “NestWatch”: Learn more at www.nestwatch.org

Citizen Science studies sometimes take a close look a nesting bird species, to monitor when and where certain birds are taking up residence during breeding seasons.