Great Backyard Bird Count
Feb. 6th, 2021 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverflight8Next weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count, which aims to harness citizen science and observation to create a detailed snapshot of bird activity and presence, globally. It's a challenge meant to encourage new birders and also those who aren't birders, just interested or wanting to be involved in the outdoors.
All you have to do is observe and record birds for 15 mins, between Feb 12-15, and then upload the count.
Here is the eBird link with information: https://ebird.org/news/great-backyard-bird-count-2021
If you have never birded, the Merlin app is super easy to use.
I bird both by going to places, and also by standing at my window. I live in a city, my window faces an alley and then another building's back, and the "yard" is really just a short distance to a concrete wall, but I see birds there (5 species so far this year!). So don't despair if you don't have ideal conditions. In fact, I think one of the reasons the GBBC runs is because while there is good coverage of popular birding spots, there are many dead zones where there is no record at all.
All you have to do is observe and record birds for 15 mins, between Feb 12-15, and then upload the count.
Here is the eBird link with information: https://ebird.org/news/great-backyard-bird-count-2021
If you have never birded, the Merlin app is super easy to use.
I bird both by going to places, and also by standing at my window. I live in a city, my window faces an alley and then another building's back, and the "yard" is really just a short distance to a concrete wall, but I see birds there (5 species so far this year!). So don't despair if you don't have ideal conditions. In fact, I think one of the reasons the GBBC runs is because while there is good coverage of popular birding spots, there are many dead zones where there is no record at all.
