The Great Backyard Bird Count is underway!
Starting today (February 17) and running through Monday (February 20) the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society are sponsoring an event aimed at counting birds all across North America. Participants should count (and identify the species of) birds in any one locale for a minimum of 15 minutes. You can do this in your backyard, at a nearby park or sitting in the woods somewhere. After tallying your list, you can go to the GBBC web site and post the results.
The web site has a multitude of information for those not familiar with such efforts. There are How-to links; an instructional video; and a running tally of numbers of checklists, species and individual birds. Check out all the links on the right side of the GBBC page, too. The Photo Gallery and Learn About Birds are especially enjoyable.
And there are prizes for some lucky participants, too!
1 comment:
Worked at this off and on all day, but it is so cold and windy here there just isn't much around...not even crows or geese. Hoping things will start hopping around five when the crows head home to the big roost in Amsterdam
Post a Comment