Instructions

Step One: Cut out the cards of the various with their accompanying descriptions. Step Two: Cut out the bingo boards. Step Three: Collect buttons, scrap pieces of paper, or any other creative material to use as bingo chips.

Step Four: Shuffle the individual cards and call them out one by one. Step Five: Encourage children to read the bird descriptions as they play, or have an adult read them aloud to learn more about the various birds in the game! Step Six: The first child to cover four spaces in a row wins the game.

Step Seven: Store in a safe place for future games! Notes: Printing on a heavier paper, such as cardstock, will help the Bird Bingo game pieces last longer. Bird Bingo Cards

This is a large, This large bird has a black-necked bird that conspicuous white- migrates from the north to feathered head, hunts the south each winter and along rivers and is common across North waterways, and eats America. It is well known fish, but sometimes it for flying in a V-shaped takes another bird’s food formation and for the instead of catching its noisy honking sounds the own. GOOSE flock makes as it travels. BALD EAGLE

In summer, males are a bright, cheery yellow with A very small, brown, dark black markings; common backyard bird, females and juveniles the bubbly and energetic are a mix of a dull shade house wren likes to build of yellow and brown. its nest near homes in They will grasp onto suburban areas. wildflowers, especially purple coneflowers, to HOUSE WREN AMERICAN GOLDFINCH collect seeds.

This very adaptable and social duck tends to congregate in flocks. This friendly songbird has The male is known for its a rusty red breast and bright green head, white is commonly found in collar, and gray body backyards, even during plumage, and the female winter in cold areas. is a speckled brown. Both have an area of iridescent blue or black on their AMERICAN ROBIN MALLARD wings.

This large raptor is known The most widely best for its eating habits; distributed species of owl it soars over vast areas in the world, the barn owl of land seeking dead and is often heard calling as dying for its food. it roosts. It flies overhead With a long wingspan at night, hunting with and an excellent sense of its keen eyesight, silent smell, groups of vultures flight, and precise hearing, will gather to quickly enabling it to catch dispose of nature’s prey (mostly rodents) in TURKEY VULTURE leftovers. BARN OWL complete darkness. Bird Bingo Cards

These cheery, bright blue This is a large, noisy, and songbirds with a reddish- aggressive songbird with orange colored chest vivid blue upper plumage, frequent open country gray plumage underneath, with scattered trees and and a crest on its head. make their homes in small Highly curious, intelligent, cavities. Many bird lovers and territorial, it will have helped the bluebird chase other birds away to population to recover by dominate a food source. providing nesting boxes EASTERN BLUEBIRD for the species.

This gorgeously colored, tiny bird moves with This graceful bird is very incredible speed and is large with a long neck, able to hover in midair. It all white plumage, and beats its wings up to 53 black legs, feet, and bill. times per second to feed, It migrates in large flocks using its long tongue to from remote tundra areas reach the sweet nectar in the far north. Its wings enclosed in flowers. make a whistling sound Despite its tiny size, this in flight, and bonded hummingbird will migrate pairs will stay together RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD a nonstop 805 km (500 TUNDRA SWAN year-round. mi)!

Males are black and white with a rosy pink These large birds are breast, while females and native to America and juveniles are streaked frequent open woodlands, brown and white. Its edges of woods, and beautiful song sounds fields in groups of up to like an embellished robin 20. They roost in treetops song. The male and at day’s end and make a female both tend the loud gobbling sound as nest, singing softly to their call. ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK each other as they switch WILD TURKEY places through the day.

Male sparrows are One of the most capable of singing six to widespread shorebirds twenty different melodies, commonly seen on and female sparrows coastlines, beaches, are more attracted to and mudflats, this bird males who sing a larger explores the shoreline repertoire of songs. Song by flipping over stones, sparrows of different shells, and debris and digs areas can vary greatly in in sand to locate insects SONG SPARROW appearance. RUDDYBARN TURNSTONE OWL and small sea life. Bird Bingo Cards

Often seen on fence posts, telephone poles, This tiny bird is constantly or soaring in circles on the move as it forages patrolling highways and for insects. Its call sounds fields for rabbits and like a high-pitched cricket. rodents, this large hawk is It is a drab olive color with commonly recognized by a yellow crown encircled its ruddy-tipped tail and by a band of black. RED-TAILED HAWK its characteristic screech. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET

The gorgeous ruby-colored This unmistakable head feathers give this bird crested bird is a favorite its name. It has a snowy white body and dark at feeders. The male is a wings. It loves to catch solid, bright red, and the insects midair and visit female is a red-tinged suet feeders in the winter. brown. Both have a crest Like all woodpeckers, you and an orange beak. The can best find it by listening male and female fiercely for the drumming sound it defend their territory, and, makes as it uses its strong unlike most songbirds, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER bill to bore into dead wood NORTHERN CARDINAL both the male and female in search of insects. sing to each other.

Frequenting shorelines With a blue upper body and marshes and any wet and a characteristic habitat, the heron will forked tail, the barn perch motionless, closely swallow is known for watching for movement, its quick darting and and will strike quickly diving flights to catch to capture fish with its insects midair, as well sharp beak. With dusky as its cup-shaped nests blue-gray coloring, an commonly built in barns elongated neck, and BARN SWALLOW and other structures. GREAT BLUE HERON stilt-like legs, this elegant bird is a treat to see.

Also known as a fish As a small, nonmigratory hawk, this long-distance songbird with a migrating raptor is found black-capped head, this near open water with a bird is known for its call of plentiful supply of fish. “chick-a-dee-dee-dee.” It excels at fishing, even Frequenting bird feeders diving to make its catch, through the winter, it is and often builds stick nests known to select seeds and on pilings and treetops stow them in tree bark for to catch a bird’s-eye view later. The male sometimes OSPREY of available food and to BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE feeds the female, and they protect its young from land nest in crevices of trees. predators. Bird Bingo Cards

Eastern spend most of their time in This chicken-like game thick, brushy habitats, bird can be found in scratching at leaves open fields and brushy and hopping along the roadsides in North ground, and enjoy eating America. Its crow, similar fallen seeds from bird to that of a rooster, can feeders. They will perch be heard from a mile on low branches to sound away! their call of “drink-your- EASTERN tea”! RING-NECKED PHEASANT

Found in grasslands or This large-beaked bird is brush, often scratching commonly seen at feeders to locate insects and while seeking sunflower grubs, the beautifully seeds, its favorite food. camouflaged bobwhite is It is recognizable by in decline due to habitat its raspberry-colored loss. Its call is a distinctive head and its warbling two-syllable sequence song and can often be that sounds just like it found echoing from high is calling its own name: branches of coniferous NORTHERN BOBWHITE “bob-white”! PURPLE FINCH trees. Bird Bingo #1 Bird Bingo #2 B I R D B I R D

NORTHERN CARDINAL RED-TAILED HAWK EASTERN BLUEBIRD TUNDRA SWAN RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET RED-HEADED WOODPECKER RING-NECKED PHEASANT

AMERICAN GOLDFINCH MALLARD ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK WILD TURKEY BARN SWALLOW HOUSE WREN BLUE JAY CANADA GOOSE

PURPLE FINCH RING-NECKED PHEASANT TURKEY VULTURE OSPREY EASTERN TOWHEE NORTHERN BOBWHITE BALD EAGLE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH

BLUE JAY RUDDY TURNSTONE BARN SWALLOW BALD EAGLE TURKEY VULTURE NORTHERN CARDINAL RUDDY TURNSTONE TUNDRA SWAN Bird Bingo #3 Bird Bingo #4 B I R D B I R D

GREAT BLUE HERON WILD TURKEY AMERICAN ROBIN HOUSE WREN SONG SPARROW BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE RED-TAILED HAWK OSPREY

BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE EASTERN TOWHEE GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET BARN OWL RUDDY TURNSTONE CANADA GOOSE NORTHERN BOBWHITE TUNDRA SWAN

EASTERN BLUEBIRD RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD MALLARD ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK BLUE JAY RED-HEADED WOODPECKER AMERICAN ROBIN BALD EAGLE

NORTHERN BOBWHITE CANADA GOOSE SONG SPARROW PURPLE FINCH BARN OWL GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET HOUSE WREN GREAT BLUE HERON