The Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up!
Posted by juliana on February 8th, 2010 filed in Birds
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), which is hosted by the Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is coming up in a few weeks! This fun event goes from February 12th to February 15th. The point of the GBBC is to help scientists monitor bird species and bird migration through your area. Just watch some birds in your area for at least 15 minutes and submit your sightings to www.birdcount.org (or click on the ‘Great Backyard Bird Count’ button above). At that same website you can find a checklist that you can print out that has the species of birds in your area. Details you need to include in your submission is weather, habitat, place, time you spend bird-watching, and each species of bird you see, including how many of each species. To make sure that you don’t count the same bird twice, you should only count the largest amount of any species that you see at once during the whole time you are bird-watching. The more people who participate the better! So get outside and watch some birds from February 12th through the 15th, and have fun!
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