Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Image by Daniel Brown
This year’s Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is February 18- 21, 2022. You can participate in this world-wide annual event and help scientists study the numbers and movements of birds around the world.
Participants in the GBBC are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more days of the four-day event and report their sightings with eBird or the Merlin Bird ID app. All eBird entries and saved Merlin Bird IDs over the four days contribute to the Great Backyard Bird Count.
You can count as many times as you like across the four days of the event. Every sighting helps the global total grow. This year the sponsors of the GBBC are giving away a pair of ZEISS binoculars to one lucky participant who enters a qualifying eBird list or Merlin ID.
Need more information on how to participate. Watch the webinar below or visit www.birdcount.org.
Happy Counting!