Stuck at home this weekend? Count the birds in your backyard! Photo: Pamela Monahan/GBBC
Feb 09, 2021 Thousands of bird watchers will take part in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend. Volunteers will count birds in their own backyards, local parks and wildlife refuges.
The citizen scientist project helps track late-winter bird populations across North America. It also helps monitor how birds are responding to environmental change.
Todd Moe spoke with Becca Rodomsky-Bish, project leader for the Great Backyard Bird Count at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY. With more folks stuck at home due to the Covid pandemic, she s expecting a greater participation rate this weekend.
The 24th-annual Great Backyard Bird Count, which runs Friday through Monday, is an opportunity for all budding birdwatchers and bird-count veterans to use their
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The Christmas Bird Count is over but now the public is encouraged to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count. It s open to everyone and the premise is simple: Take 15 minutes or longer and count every bird you see. When you are done counting, upload your information to birdcount.org.
Backyard bird feeder in Aurora, Ill.
Credit Guy Stephens
This worldwide annual event is in its 24th year. National Great Rivers Research & Education Center Environmental Educator Jen Young says that in 2020 there were more than 27 million birds counted. There were over 250,000 participants in over 194 countries, Young said. There were also over 7,000 species of birds identified.
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Northern saw-whet owls are rarely seen, but once you know their distinctive tooting song, you may find that they occur in your backyard or nearby forest preserve. Photo by Kameron Perensovich through WikiCommons (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License)
A friend of ours has become seriously consumed with learning and studying bird sounds. He began recording them regularly with his iPhone this past fall and then learned how to make sonagrams of the calls to study them further. When we chatted about the question of whether he might have owls inhabiting the extensive woodland behind his house, he began doing some limited recording at night with his phone.
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8 Photos Veteran birder Susan Setterberg keeps an eye out for feathered friends as they fly near her backyard at her Ridgefield home Thursday morning. She will join the Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend. (Photos by Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
Has a whole year of reduced noise, reduced pollution, reduced driving and flying been good for bird life?
Now is your chance to help scientists find out. The Great Backyard Bird Count, a worldwide effort to observe birds everywhere and send the data to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is set for Friday through Monday.