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Backyard Bird Count Options 2/10/10
Posted on February 10th, 2010 Add a comment >>
GBBC participant newsletter – February 2010Photo by Caroline Goodrich, Florida. 2009 GBBC Are You Ready for the GBBC?
The Great Backyard Bird Count is almost here! It starts this Friday, February 12, and continues through Monday, February 15. It’s easy and fun to participate. Just watch birds for at least 15 minutes at any locaton on one or more days of the count and report the highest number of each species you see together at one tme. For more information and birding tips be sure to visit the GBBC website and check out this year’s great drawing prizes for GBBC participants. You must do your bird counts over the four days of the GBBC but you have until March 1 to enter your information through the GBBC website and to send us your entries for the GBBC photo contest.
Snazzy New Maps
We’ve just added new and improved navigable Google maps to the GBBC website. Use the plus/minus buttons to zoom in closer and move around the map of North America (or any state and province map, including Hawaii, in the results section). The maps will be updated every half-hour during the GBBC so you can see them change as the reports pour in.
Photo by Andrea Bolton, Ontario. 2009 GBBC Tell Us Your StoriesPlease take a moment after the GBBC to tell us about special experiences you may have had–whether it was sharing bird-watching quality time with a grandchild, spotting a species you’ve never seen before, or anything else that made participation meaningful to you. We’ll share a selection of your stories on the GBBC website after the count. You can send a short paragraph (and photos, if you have them) to any of the following:Audubon: citizenscience@audubon.org
Bird Studies Canada: gbbc@birdscanada.org
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: gbbc@cornell.edu
Join us for what promises to be the greatest Great Backyard Bird Count ever!
Tom Bancroft, VP and Chief Scientist, National Audubon Society
Janis Dickinson, Citizen Science Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Profile
Name: Gary
Bio: Gary Lee is a passionate birder and naturalist who worked as a New York State forest ranger for thirty-five years, mostly in the Moose River Plains and West Canada Lakes Wilderness. With John M.C. Peterson, he coauthored Adirondack Birding: 60 Great Places to Find Birds, distributed by the Adirondack Mountain Club. He has written a weekly newspaper column, often focusing on birds and other wildlife, since 1986, first for the Adirondack Express, later for Adirondack Weekly. His photographs of birds have appeared in the Adirondack Explorer and other publications. Gary is a graduate of the New York State Ranger School in Wanakena. He lives in Inlet with his wife, Karen. They have three children and four grandchildren.
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