Franklin

Explore your artistic style and train your eye as you create two bird paintings from start to finish. We’ve partnered with the Cornell Lab’s Bird Academy to offer an exciting new educational resource in thanks for your eBirding. In May, every eligible checklist that you submit gives you a chance to win free access to Bird Academy’s How to Paint Birds with Jane Kim. Learn essential techniques to paint lifelike birds that fly off the page from award-winning painter Jane Kim .

Five lucky eBirders will get this course for free from their May eBirding. If you like taking part in the eBirder of the Month Challenges, here are even more excuses to motivate yourself to get out birding. Each month of 2023 will feature a different Bird Academy course offering—tune in at the start of June to see what’s on tap for next month.