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CHANGE THE WORLD IN JUST YOUR PYJAMAS!

Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count

The following organizations all require help from the public to collect data about insects and birds that can mostly be observed from your garden. Once you’ve collated the information, send it off to the organization of your choice via their website.

The Backyard Bee Count

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes to perform a study on the number of bees visiting certain plants in a person's back yard in America
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the overall sum of knowledge about bee populations and their effects on the natural ecosystem
  • Cost:
    Materials like pen and paper, but then you probably already have these
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 20 minutes, United States

Find out more about   The Backyard Bee Count

The Hunt for Bees

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes to study bees around a sunflower plant
  • Impact:
    Helps scientists study the effects on the bee population in the U.S.
  • Cost:
    Plant seeds - unless you already have some
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 20 minutes, United States

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BRC – UK Species Recording Schemes

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes, but dependant on which study you participate in
  • Impact:
    Contributes to knowledge about species habitats in the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing, if conducting your research in your own back garden
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, United Kingdom

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Snail Search

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to hunt high and low in your back garden for snails
  • Impact:
    Helps researchers to discover what effects changing temperatures have on the mini-beasts in gardens in the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Evolution MegaLab – Snail Research

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes in your back garden searching for banded snails
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the understanding of how evolution works
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, Austria, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, France, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Germany, Green, Home & Garden, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Spain, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Add an Adder

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to write about your recollections of adders in an email
  • Impact:
    Helping to build up a picture of the adder population in the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Conker Tree Survey

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to carry out a conker tree survey and describe it's condition
  • Impact:
    Contributing to research into how to prevent an 'alien' species of moth from invading Britain and attacking conker trees
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Buglife

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to search for bugs in your back garden
  • Impact:
    Helps to discover how some of the rarest and most spectacular bugs in the UK are doing
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Beewatch

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to record details of a bumblebee and submit the information via the website
  • Impact:
    Contributing to the knowledge of bumblebees in the UK in order to conserve them
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Big Bat Survey

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to record details of bats on an interactive web map of the UK
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the conservation of the UK bat population
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 20 minutes, United Kingdom

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UK LadyBird Survey

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to discover some ladybirds, record their details and submit it via the website
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the study of ladybirds by building up a long-term view of where and how they live in the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   UK LadyBird Survey

Project FeederWatch – Bird Surveys

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes at a time to count birds at their feeding area
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the biodiversity research of birds in the U.S.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United States

Find out more about   Project FeederWatch – Bird Surveys

eBird

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to do some birdwatching in your own back yard
  • Impact:
    Contributes to a better understanding of bird distribution across the western hemisphere and beyond.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United States

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Great Backyard Bird Count

  • Time taken:
    Minimum 15 minutes counting birds in your back garden
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the biodiversity knowledge pool about birds in the U.S.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Canada, Country, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 20 minutes, United States

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Frog Watch

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to discover frogs in your back garden
  • Impact:
    Helping to find out more about UK urban distributions of widespread amphibians, in order to discover more about their habits and about their garden habitats.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

Find out more about   Frog Watch