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The Great Backyard Bird Count

By on February 16, 2024 in Conservation, Events, In the News

This is so easy, anyone could do it! Spend time in your favorite places watching birds, then tell us about them! In as little as 15 minutes notice the birds around you. Identify them, count them, and submit them to help scientists better understand and protect birds around the world. If you already use eBird or Merlin, your submissions over the 4 days count towards GBBC.

How to Participate

Birding is for anyone.
Clockwise from top left: Maria Kalardi in Sweden, Pradip Mishra in India, Taylor Long in United States, Irvin Calicut in Kuwait.

Participating is easy, fun to do alone or with others, and can be done anywhere you find birds.

Step 1: Decide where you will watch birds.

Step 2: Watch birds for 15 minutes or more, at least once over the four days, February 16–19, 2024.

Step 3: Identify all the birds you see or hear within your planned time/location and use the best tool for sharing your bird sightings:

  • If you are a beginning bird admirer and new to bird identification, try using the Merlin Bird ID app to tell us what birds you are seeing or hearing.
  • If you have participated in the count before and want to record numbers of birds, try the eBird Mobile app or enter your bird list on the eBird website (desktop/laptop).

If you already contribute to Merlin or eBird, continue what you are doing! All entries over the 4-days count towards GBBC.

For more information, go to https://www.birdcount.org/

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Birding Basics at Turtle Bay Bird Sanctuary

By on January 29, 2024 in

Join us for a new series of Thursday bird walks with Tricia Ford of the Shasta Birding Society.  Every walk will feature a discussion of a birding skill and/or a hot topic in the world of birding.  Beginning birdwatchers are especially encouraged to join us in learning to identify the large variety of avian life in the area.

The February 15 walk will discuss how and why to use eBird, a free app for your cell phone that can keep track of all your birding adventures and allow you to participate in community science.

We will meet each month at the for a leisurely two-hour stroll along the Sacramento River Trail.  Meet at the Turtle Bay Redding Boat Launch, located behind the Redding Civic Auditorium (Map: https://shorturl.at/twRVX). Join us for a leisurely two-hour stroll on both paved and gravel trails.  Bathrooms can be found at three locations along the way.

Binoculars are available to borrow, and instructions will be provided for their use.  Rain will cancel.  Contact Tricia Ford at triciathebirdnerd@gmail.com for more information.

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Great Backyard Bird Count

By on January 26, 2021 in


Each February, for four days, the world comes together for the love of birds. Over these four days we invite people to spend time in their favorite places watching and counting as many birds as they can find and reporting them to us. These observations help scientists better understand global bird populations before one of their annual migrations.

Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) was the first online citizen science project, also referred to as community science, to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real time. Birds Canada joined the project in 2009 to provide an expanded capacity to support participation in Canada. In 2013, we became a global project when we began entering data into eBird, the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science project.

New to the Great Backyard Bird Count or using eBird? Explore our How to Participate on options for entering your bird lists.

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Technology for Birders

By on April 19, 2018 in

Did you ever wonder about tools to assist your birding? Our panel will address what’s available, from the most basic (binoculars, Linda Aldrich) to the most sophisticated (apps for smart phones, Chad Scott). Larry Jordan will talk about bird photography and Dan Greaney will tell us how to use eBird and what it does. Some of this will be basic for beginners, there will be something for the most experienced birders and “news that you can use” for all of us in between.

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The Great Backyard Bird Count

By on January 10, 2018 in

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 snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds.

We invite you to participate! For at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count, February 16-19, 2018, simply tally the numbers and kinds of birds you see. You can count from any location, anywhere in the world, for as long as you wish!

If you’re new to the count, or have not participated since before the 2013 merger with eBird, you must create a free online account to enter your checklists. If you already have an account, just use the same login name and password. If you have already participated in another Cornell Lab citizen-science project, you can use your existing login information, too.

Click here for more info on how to get started.

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