Get ready for GBBC 2020
Golden-crowned Kinglet - Thanks to member Dan Olson for this photo
MEMBERS ONLY - NO PETS
Attention Village Birders:
By Vic Prislipsky, Field Trip Chair
Our next field trip will be Friday, February 14th. This is our annual survey of the Village lakes as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count.
There is no sign-up, just come. Meet at Balboa Beach at 7:30 a.m. From there we will go to Lakes Maria, Sophia, Estrella and Isabella. Then lunch somewhere where we will decide if there is interest in going on.
As usual bring water and whatever munchies you prefer. If the morning's weather is anything beyond the lightest rain, considered the trip cancelled.
Meet at Balboa Beach at 7:30 a.m., on Friday, February 14th
What is GBBC?
Join bird watchers of all ages worldwide who will count birds to create a real-time snapshot of where birds are.
More than 160,000 people of all ages and walks of life worldwide will participate in the four-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds.
The next GBBC is February 14-17, 2020
BirdCount.org
HSV Audubon will have a field trip - details above!
You can sign up for a free account and get newsletters from Cornell Lab | Bird Academy to help get you ready for the count and pass along fun information about birds. https://gbbc.birdcount.org/get-started/
Free Tune-Up for GBBC
GBBC is powered by eBird and it is strongly recommended that everyone take the free
eBird Essentials course
before the count. You can set up your free account and start using eBird as soon as you wish, and this is a great way to practice for the GBBC and to help document birds worldwide.
In 2019 over 209,000 checklists were submitted, with 6849 total species and over 32 million individual birds were counted.
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.
