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Act Now, Surf Later

If the best human athletes were passing through your neighborhood, you wouldn't just read about them on a web site, right? Of course not. If they held the Olympics in your town, you would go, right? SO IT MIGHT NOT BE TOO LATE TO SEE THESE LONG-DISTANCE CHAMPIONS. Here are three cool things to do during the migrations:

Get out and see them. Photographs on web sites are nice, but a kettle of hundreds of hawks soaring over your head is really living. For tips on hawk watching, check out this Hawk Watcher's Primer.

Become a citizen scientist and help researchers learn more about migrating animals. It's hard to learn about migration by staying in just one place, but hundreds of people around the continent can do a great job of tracking migration, so scientists could use a hand. Just think, by taking a look around outside, you might be helping out scientists at top universities and labs.
To help track Broad-winged Hawks, join in the International Broad-Winged Hawk Survey.

To help with warblers like the Blackpoll Warbler, go to Warbler Watch.

To find out How to Track the Monarch Migration to Mexico.

Take it one step further and help those migrators out by improving the habitat around your neighborhood. Check out how to
Unpave the Way for Monarchs and make your backyard more inviting to the butterflies.

For general ideas on backyard habitat improvement, go to Creating A Backyard Wildlife Habitat.



Blackpoll Warblers

United States Geological Survey

National Zoo



Broad-winged Hawks

United States Geological Survey

National Zoo



Monarch Butterflies

Monarch Watch
Find out more about Monarchs and how to raise them, track their migration and check how they're doing across North America.

Journey North / Journey South
During the spring and fall migrations, this site is full of migrator updates and opportunities to post your sightings of migrating animals.

e-Nature.com
Find photos, listen to the calls and learn more about the wildlife mentioned in this issue, as well as many others.

National Wildlife Federation's Kidzone
Always a fun site, with wildlife games and activities for any age.

New Hampshire Audubon
Have a wildlife mystery you can't solve? Well, get some help from a New Hampshire Naturalist by sending in your question or viewing the answers to other people's questions.