Count For Fun, Count For the Future:
The 12th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count is Feb 13-16th!
How to do the Great Backyard Bird Count
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. Plan to count birds for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count, February 13–16, 2009. You can count each day or just some of the days and you can count in different places. Just be sure to keep a separate list of birds for each day and each location.
2. For each type of bird you see, count the most you see at any one time. For example, maybe you see two chickadees when you start watching, then five chickadees a few minutes later. The number you put on your list for chickadees is five. Do not add two plus five. (This way way you don't accidentally count the same bird twice.)
3. Enter your results on the Great Backyard Bird Count web site! Then watch the maps as more and more people enter their reports.
That's it! Now get ready to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count because when it comes to watching birds, kids count!
More Resources
BirdSource (http://www.birdsource.org/)
This interactive site provides information and access (links listed below) to a number of bird monitoring projects designed to allow interaction between citizens and scientists interested in birds. These programs are designed and managed by a unique partnership between the National Audubon Society and the Cornel Laboratory of Ornithology. Examples of programs support by BirdSource include:
• The Great Backyard Bird Count (annual) – www.birdsource.org/gbbc/toc_page.html
• Classroom Feeder Watch (year round) – www.birds.cornell.edu/cfw/index.html
• Christmas Bird Count (annual) – www.audubon.org/bird/cbc
• eBird (year round personal inventories) -
www.ebird.org/content/index.html
Homemade Bird Feeders
Using Recycled Materials
For Ages 6 & Up
Ages Up To 6
Photo credits child in yellow shirt ©iStockphoto.com/Cliff Parnell; child with open mouth ©iStockphoto.com/Rob Friedman; boy with binoculars ©iStockphoto.com/Maartje van Caspel.
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