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National Audubon Releases “State of the Birds” SCAS Welcomes Spence Guerin to our December 10 General Meeting Florida’s Bald Eagles vs. Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne Bird Identification Tips from the Very Bad Birder Satellite Beach Recreation Department Upcoming Events Banded Cooper’s Hawk Completes Five Year Odyssey |
Calling All BirdersCompiled by Roy Book and plagiarized from several sourcesJoin us in the 105th annual Christmas Bird Count. CBC began over a century ago when 27 conservationists in 25 localities, led by scientist Frank Chapman, changed the course of ornithological history. On Christmas Day 1900, the small group of conservationists posed an alternative to the “side Hunt,” a Christmas day activity in which teams competed to see who could shoot the most birds and small mammals. Instead, Chapman proposed to identify, count, and record all the birds they saw, founding what is now considered to be the most significant citizen-based conservation effort and a more than century-old institution. Today, over 55,000 volunteers from all 50 states, every Canadian province, parts of Central and South America, Bermuda, the West Indies, and Pacific islands count and record every individual bird and bird species seen in a specified area. Each count group completes a census of the birds found during one 24-hour period between December 14 and January 5 in a designated circle 15 miles in diameter-about 177 square miles. We are fortunate to have three CBCs scheduled for Brevard County again this year. Please contact one of the listed co-compilers to sign up or for additional information. Cocoa: Saturday, December 18, 2004: Nedra Sekera, 321 254 8587, Nedrabird@aol.com, Dick Novier, 321 723 5487, BigButeo@aol.com MINWR: Monday, December 20, 2004: Dan Click, 321-452-4709, dclick@cfl.rr.com, Judy Dryja, 321-632-9249, jjdryja@brevard.net South Brevard: Sunday, January 2, 2005: The South
Brevard CBC is unique because it’s area is partially in Brevard
and partially in Indian River County and is supported by both the
Space Coast Audubon and the
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