Bird watching with Nørre G

What are you planning for the Easter Break? The biology teachers Maria, Dorte, and Carsten have no doubts – you should, of course, go bird watching!
You see, birds have a de-stressing effect on us humans, and nothing is more pleasant than listening to birdsong.

In the springtime, birds are very busy. They need to find a partner and must defend their territory – this is why they sing. Birds are especially active just before and around the sunrise. If you pull yourself together and get up early during the twilight of spring (and summer), you will experience an impressive choir of bird vocals.

However, bird watching is not exclusively for the ’early birds’. You can watch birds at all hours of the day – just by looking up. And the springtime is one of the better times for it. Apart from the non-migratory birds that stay where they are both during summer and winter, a great many migratory birds visit us in Denmark during the spring months March, April, and May.

At Nørre Gymnasium, we’d really like you to go bird watching, so much so that we offer three prizes to those students who take the best bird photos or get a shot of the rarest. Send your photograph to kikpaafugle@norreg.dk

There are very many different birds in Denmark, but most of us only know the names of a few of them. We all need a bit of help finding out which species of bird we have seen. To help you, we have found a couple of apps you can download on your phone – one to identify the appearance and the other the sound of the bird.

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