[Bristol-Birds] Fwd: Thank You from the Great Backyard Bird Count
- From: jpmoyle18@xxxxxxx
- To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:34:39 -0500 (EST)
Dear Fellow Members, I just thought you all might find this info interesting,
if you have not done a count.
John Moyle Glen Alpine Road
Kingsport/Sullivan County
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From: Great Backyard Bird Count <gbbc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jpmoyle18@xxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 1:35 pm
Subject: Thank You from the Great Backyard Bird Count
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March 2011 eNewsletter
GBBC participants at the Briar Brush
Nature Center in Pennsylvania. Photo
by GBBC participant Jennifer Sherwood.
A Great Big Bird Count Thank-You
Thanks to you, the Great Backyard Bird Count has received 92,000 bird
checklists with more than 11 million bird observations reported! Our staff is
now taking a look at the data. We'll send you a link to a summary in our next
eNewsletter. But we couldn’t let another day go by without a warm thank you to
all who took the time to participate, including our ambassadors and volunteer
data reviewers.
Top Birds
The most numerous bird counted was the European Starling—a species that was
entirely absent from North America before the late 19th century. One hundred
birds were introduced in New York's Central Park in 1890 and 1891. According to
The Birds of North America Online, the descendents of these few birds now total
more than 200 million and are distributed across the entire continent.
The American Robin was the second most numerous species reported this year with
more than 800,000 reported from Florida--for the third year in a row, the site
of a massive roost near St. Petersburg.
One of the rarities reported this year was in Newfoundland and Labrador, where
a Common Snipe was found (a Eurasian relative of the Wilson’s Snipe).
Check out this year’s Top Ten lists and explore other results from the count.
Acrobatic American Goldfinches. Photo by GBBC participant Cheryl Soleto, Texas
Prizes to Award
We have more than 80 great prizes to award and will start drawing from among
all this year’s GBBC participants. We’re giving away everything from bird
feeders and books to a great iPod touch device loaded with Audubon’s birding
app, donated by Green Mountain Digital. If we draw your name, you’ll get an
email requesting a street address so we can send your prize.
You Get the Picture
As always we have thousands of images to judge for the 2011 GBBC photo contest!
There are some real beauties this year, but all will be considered for the
contest in six categories: overall, behavior, habitat, group, composition, and
people. In the meantime, check out the hundreds of images we have posted in
this year’s photo gallery.
Keep Counting
If you’ve contracted the bird-watching bug after the GBBC, you can still report
your bird sightings anytime, anywhere, through eBird. Set up your free account
at www.eBird.org.
Sign-ups for the next season of Project FeederWatch are taking place right now.
Participants joining for the first time before March 15 will receive the
poster-size FeederWatch calendar, filled with beautiful color photos of birds,
to carry you over until the project begins in the fall. FeederWatch takes place
from November to early April each year. The $15 fee ($12 for Lab members)
covers the cost of producing project materials, including the FeederWatcher’s
Handbook and Winter Bird Highlights, an annual summary of FeederWatch findings.
-- Project FeederWatch: United States -- Project
FeederWatch: Canada
The next Great Backyard Bird Count is February 17-20, 2012!
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