Columbia Valley Pioneer workers
Another Christmas Bird Count is quick approaching and everyone seems to be invited.
This 12 months the depend within the Invermere space will take place on Saturday, Dec. 16. Experienced or not, all are welcome to take part on this nice out of doors exercise.
Starting in 1900, the annual depend is North America’s longest-running Citizen Science venture that focuses on the winter chook inhabitants. Many birds go away the native space for hotter climates whereas different species arrive from the far north.
The info collected by hundreds of volunteers kinds one of many world’s largest units of wildlife survey knowledge and is used every day by biologists to evaluate inhabitants developments and chook distribution. The outcomes are submitted to the Audubon/Bird Studies Canada databases and collated for all of North America.
Each Christmas Bird Count is accomplished inside a beforehand established 24-km diameter space on a single day.
Anyone concerned about counting the ‘feathered friends’ in Invermere can contact Gareth Thomson at [email protected]. Bring your binoculars, digicam or simply your self and you’ll be matched with a gaggle of skilled birders for the outing. At the tip of the day on December 16, birders collect for an non-compulsory potluck dinner to get to know one another higher and change notes from the day.
Another approach to take part is to watch and depend the birds at your feeder. For particulars, contact Thomson earlier than the day of the depend. Note that your location have to be inside the depend circle (12-km radius from Wilmer).
(Photo by Claude Rioux)
Great gray owl, posing on a department on benchlands close to Wilmer, BC
