Join the Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, December 14, 2024
Written by Andy McCormick
Registration for the 2024 Eastside Audubon CBC is open! Go to the CBC page to become a feeder watcher, join a field team, and join the Zoom celebration. We will have 15 field teams this year.
WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
The EAS CBC is an all-volunteer project, and we have three ways for you to participate.
Become an at-home Feeder Watcher
If you’d like to participate in the CBC but can’t commit to a full day or field count, you can count birds from your house! As long as you live within the 25-mile diameter circle centered on Beaver Lake in Sammamish, you can register as a Feeder Watcher. Spend an hour or two counting birds in your backyard and submit that valuable data for science.
Join a field team
Our chapter has 15 field teams being led by experienced birders who are accepting 3-8 volunteer participants. You can see the groups and the areas they count on the CBC page. Registration is open until December 10.
Everyone is invited to the CBC Zoom Social!
This is an appreciation for the bird counters who have spent the entire day observing and tallying bird counts in the largest citizen science project in the world. At the end of our count day on December 14th, we will look at the results and have a conversation about the CBC over Zoom. Whether you have participated in CBC or not, you are welcome to join us!
Please register at the link below if you’d like to attend. The Zoom Social will be held from 5-7pm on December 14th, after the count.
JOIN THE COUNT FOR FUN AND SCIENCE
The CBC is the world’s largest and longest-running community science data collection project. The 2024-2025 count period from December 14 to January 5 marks the 125th CBC sponsored by the National Audubon Society. It will be Eastside Audubon’s 41st CBC.
Whether you participate by joining a field team, watching your feeder at home, or sharing in the experience of the day at the dinner, you can register for the event you want to join below. Late registrations, please email Andy McCormick at amccormick@eastsideaudubon.org