It’s for the birds.

You may know that birds are the barometer of the ecosystem health and the alert system for detecting global environmental ills.

But what you may not know is today is National Bird Day.  Each year on January 5, the official holiday is scheduled to coincide with the end of the annual Christmas Bird Count. It lasts three weeks and is the longest running citizen science survey in the world that helps to monitor the health of our nation’s birds.

In honor of this day, T4CI would like to salute a few of our projects who work to ensure birds throughout the world are healthy and singing a happy tune.

Junglekeepers works to keep part of the pristine amazon rainforest from deforestation and agriculture, to preserve it for all the horticulture and animals who live there, include 1500+ species of birds.

And where would we be without our farm birds including chicken, ducks and geese? Animal Agriculture Reform Collaborative is a diversified stakeholders group working together to fight factory farming. Their goal: to change the system that respects the welfare of our planet, including the livestock within our ecosystems.

Of course, many of our T4CI projects help birds in one way or another (as well as our planet), check them out at http://T4CI.org/sponsored

How about a tweet to share this? Simply click on the link below.

Tweet: It’s National Bird Day. Find out some of the ways we are helping them: http://ctt.ec/6U5jI+