Final Bird Project Report

For my Bird Project that I completed during the fall of 2011, I researched the Puffins. I had some difficulty in finding a project to work on. I had contacted multiple organizations, approaching them willing to help in any way possible, but was informed no help was needed. I contacted Project Puffin, and spoke with Rose Borzik, but since I currently reside in the southern part of New Jersey, I was informed that I wouldn’t be much help to their organization. I tried to then reach out to the Bald Eagle organization, hoping that with a new bird I would have more luck, but as it turns out, that was not the case, and I was turned away from them as well. The region I was assigned was the Atlantic Periphery, and it seemed that the organizations I was contacting all wanted help from locals, and that there wouldn’t be much for me to do from New Jersey. After reaching multiple dead ends, I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a Facebook page dedicated to the Puffins. 

            I began the creation of the Puffin page with a brief description of what the Puffins are and where they live, what they eat, a brief introduction. They I began to make statuses as if I was in fact a Puffin, trying to make the page stand out from others.  I also posted a link to my blog that I made about my experience with finding and creating a Bird Project. On the Facebook page I also posted other links to websites about Puffins I found to be informative or interesting; some showed ways to get involved with saving the Puffins, or ways that others were helping out. All together I made 12 posts and acquired over 100 likes.

            For the blog I created, I named it “bird is da word” trying to make it sound catching and fun. Here I discussed and ranted about the problems I encountered while working on my project; from looking for an organization to getting people to actually look and “like” my page.  This was a very stressful process, since the majority of my grade for my Geography of the US and Canada was depending on my Bird Project.

a-z-animals.com

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/atlantic-puffin/

http://birdisdaword.blogspot.com

craftingagreenworld.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Puffins

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0812_020812_TVpuffin.html

shop.projectpuffin.org

www.projectpuffin.org

www.seabird.org

Wrap Up

The semester is coming to a close, which means that it is time to put the final touches on my bird project. I did my project on the Puffins, researching them and making a Facebook page for all things puffins. It was a very stressful semester for me, since figuring out what my bird project was going to be seemed like an impossible task. But in the end, my Facebook page got a bunch of likes and its pretty informative. My goal for it is to transfer it to a bird group... I've been calling multiple organizations, so I'll keep you posted!!!
remember....BIRD IS THE WORD!!


Visit this page to learn about some pretty awesome kids doing some pretty awesome things for Puffins!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0812_020812_TVpuffin.html