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February 17, 2006

Backyard Bird Count

Guest post from KT:

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual event co-sponsored by the Audubon Society and Cornell's ornithology lab. The idea is to get regular people throughout the country to help survey bird populations, and it's actually produced a lot of useful research data in prior years. For my part, I've found that it's both fun and easy. I got hooked on it in 2001, when I became the first person to log a formal report of peregrine falcons in my particular "back yard"--i.e., downtown Atlanta. I had to work that weekend, and I saw them, so why not?

If you're interested, participation is very easy and doesn't require much bird knowledge at all. All you have to do is this: (1) See a wild bird, or several birds, wherever you may be this Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I think the site has some identification tips if the bird is a mysterious one. (2) Enter the information into a handy online report form by sometime early next week. (3) Enjoy the interesting maps and info generated by thousands of comparable reports. (Or, just congratulate yourself and log off.)

Posted by tedf at February 17, 2006 08:12 PM

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