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Stratford-Milford: Christmas Bird Count
Frank Chapman and 26 other conservationists initiated the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) as a way of promoting conservation by counting, rather than hunting, birds on Christmas Day of 1900. Some counts have been running every year since then and the CBC now happens in over 20 countries in the western hemisphere! Now a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 120 years of community science involvement, it is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the U.S., Canada (where Audubon partners with Birds Canada), and many countries in the Western Hemisphere go out over a 24-hour period on one calendar day to count birds. All Christmas Bird Counts are conducted between December 14 to January 5. Each count circle has a complier who coordinates the teams in the field and gathers all of the data to submit to NAS.
Contact the compiler for more information:
*Stratford-Milford, CT (CTSM) Compiler:
Steve Mayo: scmayo999@gmail.com
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