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Christmas Bird Count

Monitoring Science:

Christmas Bird Count

In its 1 January 2009 Editorial, Nature [457, 8] comments on the public service that is the Christmas bird count. Nature calls the Count a

. . . model to be emulated in distributed, volunteer science.

The 5th of January marks the completion of the 109th Christmas bird count, a yearly rite in which groups of North American bird-lovers pick a day around the winter solstice, fan out in teams to their designated areas, and count every bird that they see.

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Sidney DragganMember, Environmental Information Coalition's Stewardship Committee for the EarthPortal/Encyclopedia of Earth. ... (Full Bio)

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