Fifteen minutes of your time, on any day from Friday through Monday, on an urban street corner, a suburban backyard, a farm field anywhere in the world can make a difference for birds and people.
This year s Great Backyard Bird Count is about to begin and even if you don t know the difference between a tufted titmouse and a dark-eyed junco, you can participate and help scientists determine where the birds are. That information, in turn, can help shed light on conditions for people as well. And, besides all that, it s just fun to count birds. They re so charismatic and they re everywhere, said Becca Rodomsky-Bish, Great Backyard Bird Count project leader for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Great Backyard Bird Count underway
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The worldwide Great Backyard Bird Count event has returned for the 24th year this month, with hopes that with more people spending time outdoors because of the pandemic, more will participate for a better count.
The annual bird count is an opportunity for all budding birdwatchers and bird-count experts to use their skills. For at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count, people are encouraged to collect their findings and enter them into the online checklists.
Written by The Great Backyard Bird Count
The 2021 Great Backyard Bird Count will take place in Connecticut February 12-15, 2021
Each February, for four days, the world comes together for the love of birds. Over these four days we invite people to spend time in their favorite places watching and counting as many birds as they can find and reporting them to us. These observations help scientists better understand global bird populations before one of their annual migrations.
Participating is easy, fun to do alone, or with others, and can be done anywhere you find birds. Simply
watch birds for 15 minutes or more, at least once over the four days, February 12-15, 2021, and tell us what you see!