13th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count

Title: 13th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count
Location: Russ Pitman Park
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Description: This year the Nature Discovery Center will take part in the nationwide 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count! Join us in counting birds in Russ Pitman Park on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 from 12:30 to 2 pm. Families are welcome. Registration is not required.

We will meet at the front porch of the Nature Discovery Center. Bring a pair of binoculars if you can, but we will have a few extra pair here if needed. Please call or e-mail Mary Ann ahead of time to make sure we have a pair for your use if needed.

Bird watchers coast to coast will participate in separate counts sometime between Friday, February 12, and Monday, February 15, 2010. Participants in the free event will join tens of thousands of volunteers of all levels of birding experience to count birds in their own backyards, local parks or wildlife refuges.

Checklists submitted by “citizen scientists” all over the country help researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society learn more about how the birds are doing—and how to protect them. Last year, participants turned in more than 93,600 checklists online, creating the continent’s largest instantaneous snapshot of bird populations ever recorded.

Check out this website if you would like more information about the Great Backyard Bird Count or if you would like to have a count in your own backyard. http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/press/2010-gbbc-news-release.
Start Time: 12:30
Date: 2010-02-13
End Time: 14:00