The Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up this weekend (February 12-15). It’s a great way to be part of a great citizen science effort that has been going on since 1997 and… you can do it from the comfort of your home!

The Great Backyard Bird Count is easy to participate in and over the four days, you can spend as much or as little time as you like. Some people spend 15 minutes, others spend a few hours – whatever time you want to spend counts and adds to the great data that is collected. This is also a great activity to share with kids!

Watch a video about the Great Backyard Bird Count here. This video explains more about how to participate in the count and talks about how small bits of data on birds from our backyards can really help us understand the bigger picture of bird populations.

This is a really fun event to be a part of so we encourage everyone to participate!  If you do participate, we’d also love to have your data to use it in our Loudoun County Bird Atlas!  After you do your GBBC, just email your tally results over to our Bird Atlas Coordinator, Spring Ligi, at sligi@loudounwildlife.org and she’ll get your data entered into our Atlas database. 

Even more information about the Great Backyard Bird Count as well as the data form can be found on the website: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/

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