The four-day count typically records more than 10 million observations. The count can require as little as 15 minutes on one day. (The Huntsville Times file)This weekend, you can be a part of the annual Great Backyard Bird Count, a collaborative effort to take a census of birdlife across the U.S. and Canada.
Between Friday and Monday , everyone from ornithologists to backyard birders is being enlisted to create an instantaneous snapshot of our feathered neighbors. Interest is high this year in the wake of several reports in scattered locales of large numbers of birds dying in mysterious circumstances.
Anyone is invited to take at least 15 minutes on any day during the survey to tally birds present in yards, parks or forests and to enter the results at www.birdcount. org.
Field guides and lists of species you're likely to see in your locale are available at the site.
After submitting your results, you can watch the count grow as fellow birders submit their reports. Coordinated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society and Bird Studies Canada, the four-day count typically records more than 10 million observations.
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