Event Category: Other Events

See details at the official GBBC website

Please join us this year for the National Audubon Society’s 120^th Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Our count day will be Sunday, December 15^th, during which our field teams will survey all of the birds seen or heard across eleven sectors in our 15-mile diameter count circle centered around Williamsburg. In addition to the field teams, we rely on a growing army of feeder watchers who count the birds at their feeders, back yards, and neighborhoods to help us form a complete picture of how our bird populations have been changing over time.

The Christmas Bird Count is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to get involved in the longest-running citizen science project in the United States. Anyone can choose to team up with a party in the field or volunteer to be a feeder watcher right at home. Whatever you can contribute, even if it’s just for a few hours, is valuable to the success of our count. The more eyes we have in the field, or on our feeders, will make the day more fun for everyone and help us provide the best data we can to this important project.

More information about the CBC can be found on the Audubon Society’s web site http://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count. If you want to get involved but you’re not sure what to do, then contact Jim Corliss and he will help connect you with a sector coordinator. Phone: 757-755-1544. Email: jcorliss240@cox.net.

The New River Valley Bird Club invites you to the VSO Annual Meeting this spring from May 3-5, 2019 is at Mountain Lake. See the VSO web page for more info, http://www.virginiabirds.org/events/annual-meeting/2019/2/26/new-river-valley-bird-club-to-host-2019-vso-annual-meeting.

If you want to join a team of birders for the Spring Bird Count, let us know! You can also count the birds at your feeders and send us the information.

Count the birds in your backyard! Just fifteen minutes a day is all it takes. For information, see Great Backyard Bird Count.