Administration A flyer is prepared advertising the course three months ahead of time. Scouts pre-register a month in advance and are given the list of forty birds for them to become familiar with in their field guides. If they see any birds before the class, they should start recording them in their notebook as described in requirement five and illustrated on page 56 of the 1999 edition of the Bird Study MB pamphlet. If you wish, you can print it and make photocopies for each of your students to make notes in. Here's a link to the Adobe PDF document.
Little expense is incurred in offering the course.
In order to encourage participation, the course should normally be offered without charge to the Scouts. Remember the boys will normally have to buy a field guide and the pamphlet for the course, so they've already sunk a bit of money into the experience. If a nominal registration fee is used to ensure attendance, consider refunding it or issuing birding related gift certificates to those Scouts who go on to complete the badge.