UK Garden Bird Identification Poster / Educational Nature Resource

What’s included?

This download includes x1 landscape orientation pdf sheet.

What’s it for?

This has been created as a reference guide for the youngest learners to begin to observe and identify and begin to name some of the most common garden birds in the UK.

Position on/near a window to encourage learners to look outside and observe or when outside to cross check with the reference poster to help identify which bird they have spotted.

Who’s it for?

This resource has been designed for early years children, pupils in years one and two as well as older students who would enjoy observing and identifying birds each day.

Resource Details

This Bird Identification Poster is designed to help learners identify common garden visitors. The birds are intuitively organised by size and family: smaller species populate the top rows, with sizes increasing towards the larger birds at the bottom.

To support accurate identification, species with distinct visual differences between males and females (such as Blackbirds and finches) are shown as a pair. These are easily identified using the simple colour-coded gender key located at the top right of the poster.

Educational Value

EYFS

This resource is designed to support the following areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage:

• Understanding the World: Encourages children to observe similarities, differences, and patterns in the natural world.

• Communication and Language: Provides opportunity to naturally introduce rich, descriptive vocabulary such as 'iridescent,' 'slender,' and 'speckled.'

• Mathematics: Perfect for comparing sizes.

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Promotes a sense of care and responsibility for living things and the environment.

Learning Objectives

By using this resource, children will:

• Identify: Recognise and name at least ten common UK garden birds by their colour, shape, and size.

• Observe: Develop 'slow-looking' skills by noticing fine details, such as the 'black zip' on the tummy of a Great Tit or the 'red mask' of a Goldfinch.

• Classify: Group birds into categories based on where they feed (e.g., ground-feeders vs. hanging-feeder experts).

• Differentiate: Distinguish between similar species, such as the House Sparrow and the Dunnock, through focused observation.

Suggestion

This resource is best printed onto white card and/or laminated.

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