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Brevard Zoo Welcomes SCAS for January General Meeting Great Backyard Bird Count Begins February 18 Many Audubon Birders Participate in Christmas Bird Counts |
Many Audubon Birders Participate in Christmas Bird CountsReprinted from the Audubon Newswire
This year, participation in the CBC was more important than ever—contributors’ findings will be included in a comprehensive study of the CBC results from the past 39 years. In 2005, Audubon’s next “State of the Birds Report” will be issued, detailing the decline and rise of bird populations nationally over the past 39 years of the Count. This will incorporate both the CBC and USGS Breeding Bird Surveys since 1966. “Birding for the Christmas Bird Count allows you to have fun while generating important information that will be used in our bird conservation effort,” said Geoff LeBaron, Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count director. “Audubon and our partners at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and the Boreal Songbird Initiative have analyzed information collected by CBC participants over the last four decades: for the first time, we have good estimates of population trends for a number of species that spend their winter with us but breed far to the north.” CBC compilers enter their count data via Audubon’s Web site www.audubon.org/bird/cbc or Bird Studies Canada’s home page www.bsc-eoc.org where the 105th Count results are viewable in near real-time.
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National Audubon Society called upon volunteers throughout the Americas
to participate in Audubon’s longest-running wintertime tradition,
the annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Counts are open to birders
of all skill levels, and this year, about 2,000 individual counts
took place throughout the Western Hemisphere from December 14, 2004
to January 5, 2005.