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Indian Creek Palette will foster within young people an appreciation for, and a sense of, commitment to immediate avian conservation through seasonal hands-on fieldwork involving bird identification, habitat enhancement, journaling, and the arts.

Indian Creek Palette will convey the importance of bigger-picture avian conservation problem-solving via computer information retrieval, exposure to existing data bases, and collected-data entry which will contribute to the Citizen Science research pool.

Indian Creek Palette will affect the future of birds all over the world by supporting young people's avian conservation vigor.

Bird Clubs of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders meet monthly in the science classroom and on the school grounds to

study/write newsletters/create art/make birdhouses or feeders/etc for different colored birds:

.. all about Bluebirds

... all about Warblers

... all about Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

Clubs choose which colored bird they want to work with the following year and a field trip

Indian Creek Blues	Establishment, Monitoring and Maintenance of a 5-acre Bluebird Trail
Indian Creek Purples	Purple Martin research with gourd growing, curing, decorating and housing
Indian Creek Browns	Who gives a HOOT for owls? ... ... learning to listen-for and call owls, box building and placement, overnight campouts
Indian Creek Greens	Ground bird habitat enhancement: remove and replace invasive plants with native ground covers to increase year-round food and cover for birds
Indian Creek Yellows	Warbler habitat & observation, milk-carton nest boxes, migration studies
Indian Creek Reds	Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and native-plant gardening
Indian Creek Rainbow	Five-acre fencerow avian-ecosystem mapping project
Indian Creek Primaries	Learn local bird identification through sight and sound
Indian Creek Secondaries	Keeping our common birds common .. .. .. focus on local Citizen Science Counts for Conservation of Birds.