Ready, Set, Explore!

The Nature Decathlon is almost here. Whether you participate in one of these 'sport' challenges, or all of them, we hope you have fun exploring your backyard or neighbourhood this weekend!

1. Backyard Bird Bowl
   Your Goal: Discover which birds live in your backyard or neighbourhood (submission by email or iNaturalist)

2. Bumble Bee Bonanza
   Your Goal: Submit as many bumble bee species as you can find to Bumble Bee Watch (submission to https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/)

3. Invasive Species Art-chery
   Your Goal: Draw your best impression of an invasive species you have seen in your neighbourhood (submission by email & iNaturalist)

4. Freestyle Insect ID
   Your Goal: Find, take photos of, and identify with iNaturalist as many bugs as you can

5. Chipmunk Challenge
   Your Goal: Write your best backyard Chipmunk short story. (submission by email)

6. Tree-athlon
   Your Goal: Identify at least 3 tree species in your neighbourhood

7. Shrub Shuffle
   Your Goal: Identify as many shrubs as you see on a walk through your neighborhood

8. Fishing for Flowers
   Your Goal: Identify as many flowers you can find in your neighbourhood that aren’t in a garden.

9. Dirt Diving
   Your Goal: Identify species in your neighbourhood that live underground.

10. Moth-a-thon
    Your Goal: Capture (with a photo) as many moths as you can under a light at night.

For all details on each challenge, how to submit, and other resources to help you out, visit: https://www.oakridgesmoraine.org/backyard-biolympics/

Publicado el junio 5, 2020 10:54 TARDE por ormlt