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Lower Rouge Valley Cavity Nester Education Program
The Rouge Valley Naturalists have partnered with the Rouge Valley Foundation to create a Lower Rouge Valley Cavity Nester Education Program. There is a decline of cavity nesting birds in the Rouge Watershed, including the nuthatch, chickadee, wren, crested flycatcher and woodpeckers, and of course the Eastern Blue Bird. Our objective is to provide this program as an option to interested educators and their classes, in where participants would be building and installing the boxes. Students would gain hands-on experience and knowledge, and would also be able to visit existing 
bird boxes and surrounding habitats through guided hikes, and have an opportunity to observe birds in their natural habitats. In addition to the school program, a volunteer bird-box monitoring program has been implemented. This gives the local public opportunities to volunteer and contribute through monitoring and recording their findings in order to measure the success of the program and track cavity nesters and their habitats.
Bill Lewis, Director of Programming for the Rouge Valley Foundation has been documenting the status of cavity nesters in the Rouge Valley through monitoring of installed boxes. The implementation of this program has provided a formalized public monitoring program to allow interested birders and naturalists an opportunity for stewardship and promoters of bird habitats in the Rouge Valley .
Photo Credit: Bill Lewis