Briar Bush Nature Center

The Briar Bush Nature Center will install new exhibitions in its Griscom Bird Observatory to maximize its potential as a viable teaching space. Based on previously funded design work and input through meetings and focus groups with staff, volunteers, and members, the new exhibitions will help visitors observe and learn about birds and their importance to ecosystems and biodiversity; facilitate visitors' participation in citizen science by recording their observations; and encourage visitors to create their own backyard habitat. Refinements will be made in the exhibition's components based on pre- and post-surveys administered to visitors, school groups, and program groups.