In this article, the author discusses a five-month interdisciplinary bird study that she designed for her seventh-grade students that combines life science, technology, writing, art, mathematics, social studies and literature. The driving force behind this yearly unit is the BirdSleuth eBird program (formerly the Cornell University Classroom FeederWatch program) that is offered to classrooms around the country by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (www.birds.cornell.edu/birdsleuth). This program gives students an opportunity to count birds outside their classroom windows, collect data on a daily basis, and share this data with Cornell while becoming part of a nationwide research study. She discusses how this fine-feathered unit incorporates aspects from across the curriculum and pique students' interest in the great outdoors.