December 15, 2018 119th Christmas Bird Count Consider participating in the 119th International Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Bay County Audubon has been participating in the CBC since 1954. This will be a particularly important year to get some idea concerning how hurricane Michael affected our local bird population both in terms of species and total counts. Your level of experience ...
Christmas Bird Count Sunday, December 16th, 2018, all day Contact Andy Kratter (kratter@flmnh.ufl.edu; 352-226-2462) or Bob Carroll (gatorbob23@yahoo.com; 352-281-3616) if you’re interested in participating in this all-day event. Please sign up early. Difficulty: 3 (may involve elevation change, uneven terrain, and/or walking distances greater than two miles). For more information, check the website here.
Marion Audubon society is conducting the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count in Southwest Marion County on Monday morning, December 17, and is in need of volunteers and two pontoon boats to serve at various locations in SW Marion County. Contact Judy Greenberg, chairman Christmas Bird Count, at judymg@gmail.com as soon as possible to volunteer to be a team leader and/or ...
Meet us at the Camp Helen front gate at 6:00 am sharp. Although we typically finish birding about noon, you can spend as much or as little time as you like. We sometimes divide our group to cover the north side of the park as well as the coastal areas. We appreciate any amount of time given to help document ...
Tampa Christmas Bird Count. Contact Dave Bowman at dsbowman4@verizon.net if you’d be available to help in this area. For more information on the annual CBC, visit https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count. Out of town? As an alternative, consider getting involved in the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) organized by Audubon with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It takes place President's Day weekend each February, ...
CBC4Kids is a fun winter event to celebrate birds while engaging youth in real Citizen Science. The successful annual event promotes appreciation and awareness for birds and nature! CBC4Kids is a citizen science adventure, designed for kids aged 8-16. Parents and their youngsters join birding team leaders in the fun of celebrating nature and the outdoors. After arriving, participants are ...
We're doing a joint workday with Audubon JayWatch volunteers to remove sand pines between two promising Scrub Jay territories at FWC Henscratch, which will help the Scrub Jay families to expand. You can start at either 8 AM or 9 AM, and afterwards we'll be having a cookout! For more information, click here!
Meet at Flagler Pier at 8am for this statewide citizen science survey. ****This survey is a great opportunity for beginners: at arrival, you will be paired with a more experienced birder and provided with a photo sheet of the approx. 30 species we are searching for. Only shorebirds sitting on the beach are counted (no flying birds), so they're easier ...
Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time. Now, more than 160,000 people of all ages and walks of life worldwide join the four-day count each February to create an annual ...
Join Marion Audubon Society and Sandhill chapter FTA for birding by kayak on the Silver River. Meet at Silver Springs State Park (Main Entrance) Kayak Launch at 9:00 a.m. You may rent your kayak at the kayak concession table and pay your launch fee as soon as you arrive. If you have your own kayak, launch fee is $6 (includes ...