The National Audubon Society is asking backyard bird watchers to do some counting this weekend. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports.
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The National Audubon society is asking backyard bird watchers to do some
counting this weekend. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham
reports:
Audubon and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology are conducting the
third annual Great Backyard Bird Count. In the first year of the count, fourteen-
thousand people counted robins, cardinals, and blackbirds in their
backyard. Last year 42-thousand bird-watchers turned in data. This year
even more people are expected to participate. Audubon scientist Sally
Conyne says the data help the experts put together a large snapshot of
how birds are doing.
“Well, the goal in the end, the conservation goal, is to try to keep our common birds
common. Being pro-active rather than reactive when bird species get into trouble.”
People can count birds in their backyard, local park, or other area
anytime between February 18th through the 21st. The numbers can be
turned in through the internet at the website www.birdsource.org.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.