Local birders take part in the Annual Christmas Bird Count
The count is in â the Payson Christmas Bird Count, that is. Since 1900, the National Audubon Society has conducted bird counts throughout North America. Local birding enthusiasts conducted their 17th annual count on Jan. 5. It was a cold, but beautiful morning when 14 participants headed out to spend the day identifying and counting all the birds they saw or heard in and around Payson. By the end of the day the participants had seen 83 species and 2,852 birds, fairly average numbers for the count. The count is a census of the birds found during a 24-hour period in a designated circle 15 ...
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