[TN-Bird] Great Backyard Bird Count

Birders everywhere:
In a few weeks, the Great Backyard Bird Count will be happening again. 
The dates are 16-19 February 2007.  This is a great opportunity to get
involved in counting birds anywhere, like your backyard, your favorite
birding site, public land, downtown in your favorite city, the beach
(well maybe not in TN), etc.  All it takes is at least 15 min to do one
survey and a few minutes to enter the data into the database:
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc 
Data entry is easy and user friendly.  Best thing it you can do
multiple surveys from the same zip code, so you  aren't limited to just
one count.

This is a great opportunity to get children involved in feeder watching
and bird watching in general.  So if you have children, grandchildren,
or feel like a child sometimes, please get involved in this event.  The
data helps tally distribution of birds in winter (finch invasion from
the north), movement of species northward (i.e. Eurasian-collared Dove,
etc), finds rare birds, and is simply a fun thing to do with birds AND
you can see results immediately.  You can watch the continual update of
where points were conducted and submitted.

For details on where surveys were submitted from in TN and tallies by
species, see this link and click on Tennessee:
http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbcApps/statelinks 

A total of 1277 lists were submitted in TN in 2006 tallying 123 species
and >133,00 individuals.  Knoxville had the highest number of surveys,
with 161, followed distantly by Nashville with 78 and Memphis with 57. 


Sadly, Alabama and Mississippi both had more surveys and birds counted
then Tennessee last year!!!!  

Please take advantage of this great opportunity to contribute directly
to monitoring birds in Tennessee thru the GBBC.  

If you have questions that can't be answered on the website, email me
and I'll do my best.

Yes you can do many, many surveys not just one.  So go birding, do some
counting, and get someone new involved in bird watching!!

Cheers,
   Scott Somershoe

State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
615-781-6653 (o)
601-868-0101 (cell)
615-781-6654 (fax)

"Keeping the rubber side down." -SGS 
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