I hope you had a chance to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) last weekend. It is a very worthwhile citizen science project which this year again saw a record number of participants. If you did count birds and haven't had time to enter your counts, not to worry, You still have up until March 1st to do so. For details, see the GBBC site.
In this post I will share my GBBC results, some overall GBBC stats, and some recent bird photos that I captured.
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| Black-Capped Chickadee |
Following is my results from the 3 days that I participated in the count:
Saturday 2/13/16: 7 Species Total
6 Mourning Dove
2 Blue Jay
2 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Dark-eyed Junco
1 White-throated Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
7 House Sparrow
Sunday 2/14/16: 10 species Total
6 Mourning Dove
1 Downy Woodpecker
4 Blue Jay
2 Black-capped Chickadee
4 European Starling
4 Dark-eyed Junco
2 Northern Cardinal
1 Red-winged Blackbird
4 Brown-headed Cowbird
4 House Sparrow
Monday 2/15/16: 11 Species Total
4 Mourning Dove
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
4 Blue Jay
2 Black-capped Chickadee
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
4 European Starling
6 Dark-eyed Junco
2 Northern Cardinal
1 Red-winged Blackbird
8 House Sparrow
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| Northern Cardinal |
Now some worldwide overall GBBC results:
Statistics from 2016
- Checklists Submitted:
- 153795
- Total Species Observed:
- 5387
- Total Individual Birds Counted:
- 17313521
| Country | Number of Species | Number of Checklists |
| United States | 657 | 123,004 |
| Canada | 244 | 12,741 |
| India | 728 | 6,483 |
| Australia | 528 | 1,688 |
| Mexico | 684 | 912 |
| Costa Rica | 602 | 351 |
| Taiwan | 254 | 323 |
| Portugal | 201 | 284 |
| New Zealand | 138 | 267 |
| United Kingdom | 159 | 219 |
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| Downy Woodpecker |
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| House Sparrow |
In my next post, I will take a look at hydroponic gardening, which I am currently experimenting with myself.
Thanks for reading.
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