The count spans four days February 16th thru 19th, from Friday through Monday. Last year, more than 240,000 bird watches from more than 100 countries submitted checklists reporting more than 6,000 species from around the world.
The citizen science project was launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, It creates an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds.
Anyone can join in for free. Participants registeer and enter data on line. Anyone can simply tally the numbers and kinds of birds one sees for at least 15 minutes one or more days of the counts.
HAS ANY OF YOU TAKEN PART IN THIS ? THIS YEAR OR PREVIOUS YEARS. I HAVEN'T. I JUST FOUND OUR ABOUT IT. WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL US ABOUT IT?
6 comments:
Good morning Marilyn, I have never heard of this, learn something new every day. Thanks! Cathy in Webster
Good Morning Cathy,
You are more than welcome. A friend of mine told me about it, so I looked it up on the computer. Thought others would enjoy it, too.
Marilyn
... Cornell's Lab of Ornithology is on my 'to see list' for this spring.
Hi Tom,
I would like to see that too. I've been to Cornell, but never there.
Marilyn
You can see wonderful live camera views of redtailed hawks on their nests,birds at feeders, live cams all over at the Cornell Bird lab website. Well worth looking at on the internet.
Mary
Hi Mary,
Thank you so much. I'll have to go over there and take a look.
Marilyn
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