Adopt your favourite feathered friend

"Adopt" one of 10 bird species from the Canadian Museum of Nature. Funds raised support education programmes for the new Bird Gallery opening on October 20, 2006. For info and pledge forms, go to nature

Want to befriend a Blue Jay or a Black-capped Chickadee? How about a Peregrine Falcon or a Great Blue Heron? The Canadian Museum of Nature’s is giving Canadians the chance to take a bird “under their wing” in the new Adopt-a-Bird initiative to support public education about bird diversity and conservation in Canada.

Funds raised through the Adopt-a-Bird programme will go towards complementary national educational programming for the Museum’s new Bird Gallery opening on October 20, 2006 at the Victoria Memorial Museum Building in Ottawa, the public exhibition site of the Canadian Museum of Nature. This initiative is part of the Museum’s Natural Partnerships Campaign, a national fundraising project to raise $10 million for new galleries and national public education programmes. To date, the campaign has reached 70 % of its goal.

Close to 500 bird species found in Canada will be handsomely represented in a bright and airy newly-created exhibition space. This tranquil gallery with 380 specimens – one of the largest collections of birds on display in the world – will provide an ideal setting for observation and study. Designed to be interactive, auditory, visual and educational, the exhibition will serve as a life-size bird-watching field guide and is sure to inspire visitors of all interest levels to venture further into the world of birding. There will even be a section on how to care for injured birds, designed to appeal to children.

More details about the new galleries can be found at nature.ca.

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