Project FeederWatch Electronic Newsletter
February 13, 2008
The 11th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up this Friday
through Monday, February 15-18. There seems to be a lot of “buzz” about
it this year, both in the media and among groups that are planning
special events around the count. Organizers are hoping to top last
year’s record-breaking 81,000 checklists!
If you are counting for Project FeederWatch over the weekend, you can
enter the same tallies on the GBBC site:
[url=http://www.birdcount.org] and
have them do double duty! GBBC organizers are hoping to see where winter finches are this year, to see if the rapidly-expanding Eurasian
Collared-Dove has moved into any new provinces or states, and to learn
what birds may be lingering farther north than their typical winter ranges.
The rules for counting for the Great Backyard Bird Count are a little
different than for FeederWatch. For the Great Backyard Bird Count
you can report any birds you see, even those birds flying overhead that
don't count for FeederWatch. You can also submit a separate checklist
for each locale on every day that you count.
We hope you’ll reach out to your family, friends, neighbors, and
co-workers by forwarding this email to them or personally inviting them
to “Count for Fun, Count for the Future!” in the 2008 Great Backyard
Bird Count.
Thank you!
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FeederWatch Contact Information
For US Participants:
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Project FeederWatch
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 254-2427
feederwatch@cornell.edu
http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw
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