Bird counters will soon be grabbing their binoculars and heading forthe fields. The National Audubon Society’s 101st annual Christmas BirdCount will be held over the next few weeks (December 14, 2000 to January5, 2001). The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:
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Bird counters will soon be grabbing their binoculars and heading for the fields. The National Audubon Society’s 101st annual Christmas Bird Count will be held over the next few weeks. The Great Lakes
Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:
Almost 55-thousand volunteers throughout much of the Americas, and pacific islands will count birds. Geoff LeBaron is a spokesperson for the National
Audubon Society.
“We’re beginning our second century of data collection for the Christmas bird count. There’s no other database in ornithology that –to my knowledge– that covers such a large period of time. And what that allows researchers and conservationists or just people who are interested in, you know, bird distribution and abundance patterns to actually go back and look at the data over time in, like, decade or 25 year chunks.”
This year the National Audubon Society is working with the non-profit group
Bird Studies Canada to help make the count easier to coordinate in North
America. The bird count will be viewable on the internet at near real-time at www.birdsource.org. For the GLRC, this is Lester Graham.