Great Backyard Bird Count

Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:29:46 -0500


Subject: Great Backyard Bird Count

Hey, 

Don't forget! The 2nd Annual Great Backyard Bird Count will be taking
place February 19-22. A joint project of the Cornell Lab or Ornithology
and National Audubon (with sponsorship from Wild Birds Unlimited and
Ford), the GBBC is asking everyone in North America to count the birds
they see at their feeders, parks, and other areas. You then log onto the
BirdSource web site at <http://birdsource.cornell.edu> and report your
sightings.  Lots of other great info their, too, including last year's
findings from every state state and province.

Reports will be mapped at the web site within hours of your sending them
to us. This data will be used to make year-by-year comparisons of bird
distributions and population fluctuations.  Combined with data from
Project FeederWatch,  Christmas Bird Counts, Breeding Bird Survey and
other studies, BirdSource is already proving very useful, thanks to all of
you who participate in our projects.

If any of you are reporters (or have such connections), I can email you
our press release upon request.  

Also, if you wouldn't mind 15 minutes of fame, I'm looking for birders
across the continent who are participating and wouldn't mind being
contacted by the press for interviews. I'd need your name, town and state,
phone number, and proximity to nearest large city.

Please count for the birds -- for fun and conservation. Join us for the
Great Backyard Bird Count!

(Please forward this note to any appropriate listservs, etc.)

Allison Wells
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 254-2475
amw25@cornell.edu