The Vermont Institute of Natural Science partners on several citizen science initiatives, including Mountain Birdwatch and The Vermont Millennium Atlas Project. The atlas project sounds like a fascinating project that “integrates three wildlife atlas projects in an effort to document the status of Vermont wildlife at the dawn of the millennium.”
Their past projects have [...]
Don’t forget the Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend! It starts today and runs through Monday; you can spend as little as fifteen minutes counting birds in a location and submit your results to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
NPR featured the count on Weekend Edition, and you can listen to the story online: Backyard [...]
The folks at the Birdhouse Network reminded us of a related project in their recent newsletter:
The tenth annual Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up February 16-19. Help create a mid-winter snapshot of where the birds are by counting birds at any location for at least 15 minutes on one or more of the count [...]
