Calling all bird watchers! The Great Backyard Bird Count will be from February 18 to February 21. The National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ask people to watch birds for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count. You will record the sightings on their website and this data helps researchers understand the ways that birds respond to changing temperatures and so forth. You will count the greatest number of species and you will count the largest number of birds seen in that species.
I thought the statistics from last year were amazing. There were 97,331 checklists submitted. 603 different species observed. And 11,233,609 individual birds counted!
You can find all the information about the GBBC at
birdcount.org. It is a simple project requiring only 15 minutes, so I plan to participate. I hope you will, too!
Until next time...
I will check it out. I think my count would be skewed however since I had been running an all you can eat diner for birds during the snow. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteCheryl very cool! Thanks so much for the heads up. Of course we will participate. Ima going to check it out. I already have a link to Cornell so that I can listen to individual birds speaks! Very, very cool!
ReplyDeleteSounds very interesting. I'll check it out.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds easy enough to do. I'll have to check it out too. Thanks for providing the link and happy bird watching, er ... counting.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting project. I don't know how I could count all the goldfinches visiting my feeders. They are everywhere.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn
hey THANKS for reminding! i almost forgot.
ReplyDeleteHello all...I'm glad to know that you'll be doing the GBBC!
ReplyDeleteFirst time to visit your blog and I will definitely be back!
ReplyDeleteI see you love taking pictures of the birds. I do too and each winter remove the screens from certain windows so I can stay in the warm and do it.
During the snow, there were so many that I doubt I could have counted. We had over 40 Cardinals alone.
I love Cornell's website. That is how we finally identified the Pileated Woodpecker that was calling from the woods across the road.
Had no idea something like this existed.........thanks,
ReplyDeletegld...thanks for stopping by. And lucky you! I'd love to see a pileated woodpecker! I watch out for them, but haven't ever seen one.
ReplyDeleteMs Bon...you're welcome, hope you are participating too!
Awesome! I will have to participate, considering the large number of birds hanging around my feeders. Thanks for the infor.
ReplyDeleteHow neat....and very interesting. It really saddens me because we just don't have that many birds in our yard. I have put out all kinds of birdseed and still nothing. I wander what is up with that...
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted on the outcome.
Have a Great Day! See ya tomorrow
shug
I showed this to my husband, who loves his birds, and of course his bees!!. He is going to check it out and perhaps participate. Thanks for posting about this.
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