It’s almost spring, the bluebirds are establishing their territories, the chickadees are starting to spat since it’s soon to be time for them to nest and the screech owls are beginning their courting songs. It’s also time for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society’s annual Great Backyard Bird Count!! Yippie!
It’s something backyard bird watchers can participate in and helps wild birds by providing the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society with valuable species data as to where given species are across the United States, their distributions and ranges. It’s an important event in the world of wild bird conservation, so please participate in this.
Helping is very simple. For four days, between Feb. 13-16, 2009, you count the species you see and enter them into the database on the Great Backyard Bird Count website. You can count for 15 minutes a day or all day. That’s all! That is all you need to do. If you visit their site, you can find out what the results of previous counts have been which is valuable if you are trying to attract certain species to your yard. For example, if you want to know if certain woodpeckers or songbirds have been sited in your area and you should put up houses or special food for them, the results will tell you.
Visit the Great Backyard Bird Count website for all the information you need and to check out what has happened in your location. Again, this is important information and takes very little time, so please help keep track of bird species across the United States!
