Hi everyone,
For the first time this weekend (Feb 15-18), the 16th Great Backyard Bird Count will be taking place on a global scale.
From the GBBC website: “The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time global snapshot of where the birds are. Around the world, birds need our protection, and your observations represent contributions to a worldwide effort to better understand and protect the planet’s birds.” This year, to help make recording your observations much easier, the GBBC will use the eBird checklist interface, allowing you to take advantage of eBird’s output tools.
As the count progresses, anyone with Internet access can explore what is being reported from anywhere in the world. Last year’s effort (restricted to the USA and Canada) recorded the following:
– 104,151 checklists – 17.4 million individual birds – 623 species
But, with the GBBC open to the world in 2013, it is expected this years total will be record breaking.
If you would like to find out more about the GBBC, or participate in the global snapshot this weekend by recording your local birds, please visit the following site: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/gbbc-2013
Here is my first checklist for the weekend, six riveting species seen on my walk to work here in Perth: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12957851
Good birding,
Nigel Jackett Perth, Western Australia ===============================
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