Big Backyard Bird Count
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Big backyard bird count. Use merlin bird id for help with tricky species. More about the gbbc. You just might see a hawk at work during the big bird count. It depends on birders and families across the country to watch feeders and other areas in their yards and count the.
Submit complete checklists keep counts of the birds that you see and keep. Watch birds in your backyard or anywhere else and be part of this 20 year tradition and help provide scientists with a snapshot of bird populations. Photographer tara tanaka shares a look at the variety of birds she has in her backyard cypress swamp. As most of you know the great backyard bird count was on the weekend before last starting on the day i left the 17th of february.
My count encompassed three communities separated by some 2900 air kilometres. Backyard birding many schools families and young birders across the country participate in the great backyard bird count while not as long as a big year the great backyard bird count happens every year. Take photos and add them to your checklist they might end up on the global big day page. Global big day pro tips.
Participate from anywhere in the world. Make your sightings more valuable. I would like to encourage everyone to join a guided bird walk at albens reserve on sunday october 21 at 8am. The good news for this year s counters is that more hawks are preying on backyard birds.
A 4 day count held over a long weekend in february. A joint project of the national audubon society and cornell lab of ornithology the great backyard bird count gbbc invites everyone from new bird watchers to serious life listers to submit the birds they ve spotted. The great backyard bird count held from february 14 17 2020 is one of the largest global citizen science initiatives. I m pretty sure that i set some sort of record for the count for the greatest area covered by a single observer in a single year.
The bird count first launched in 1998 and over time brown said scientists can get a big picture idea of what s going on with the avian population especially when combined with data from other. The aussie backyard bird count runs from october 22 to 28 during national bird week. Great backyard bird count.