The annual Great Backyard Bird Count is this weekend…don’t forget to report your birds! And you can RSVP for the event on Facebook.
Over the years, you’ll develop an interesting record of the birds seen in your yard on one weekend a month. Of course, if you’re interested in doing more than that, you [...]
I’d like to invite Christmas Bird Count participants to add their photos to the Flickr pool we created last year. Photos of birds are great, but we also love photos of birders and some of the other sights from the day.
Here’s a slideshow of the photos in the pool so far:
Flickr is a photo [...]
Bird Atlases are important reference works that map the presence of bird species in greater detail than you’ll find on the maps in your field guide. They are necessarily local efforts. The San Diego Natural History Museum Bird Atlas has completed its data collection and initial publication phases…a massive effort by citizen scientists:
The [...]
Watching a bird’s nest is a fascinating experience. Nest building is intricate and a delight to watch. Baby birds grow shockingly fast…suddenly, they’re as big as adult birds and taking their first flights.
If you’re fortunate enough to be watching a nest this season, consider joining Nest Watch. Formerly known as the “Birdhouse [...]
Tina Phillips of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology sent out this timely reminder about the Great Backyard Bird Count:
This is just a quick reminder that 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 [...]
I’ve written about my first experience on the Point Reyes Christmas Bird Count (CBC), a count that I’ve participated in for four years, including this year. I love the wild, human-abandoned area that we travel through on that count. So I was a little disheartened on Friday morning when I met up with [...]
NOTE: I wrote this after participating in my first Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in 2004; it appeared on another site I had at the time. Since it’s not available on the web anymore, I thought I’d repost it to this site.
If you’ve ever thought about participating in CBC, I encourage you to do so. [...]
Unusual numbers of Horned Puffins, usually found nesting in the arctic during this time of year, are being noticed along the California Coast.
The folks at eBird have put out a call for a special count of Horned Puffins for tomorrow, Saturday June 9:
Calbirders
Well it looks like we’ve got roughly 50 people heading out [...]
CONE Sutro Forest attempts to be citizen science masquerading as an online game:
CONE Sutro Forest allows players to earn points by taking live photos and classifying wild birds. CONE Sutro Forest (CONE-SF) combines a remotely controllable robotic pan-tilt-zoom video camera with live streaming video, image database, and point system.
CONE stands for “Collaborative Observatory for Natural [...]
Our friends at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology passed along this info on their terrific urban birds celebration:
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites city residents (from small towns, suburbs, and major cities) to “Celebrate Urban Birds!”
Watch birds for ten minutes in urban green spaces: balconies with potted plants, community gardens, tree-lined streets or large [...]
