Submitted By: Carol Kagan, Penn State Extension – Franklin County Master Gardener
Birds are all over the place, on a regular basis, doing fascinating issues. Join the Cornell Bird Lab’s Great Backyard Bird Count this yr from Friday, February 16 by Monday, February 19, 2024.
You can depend them wherever – even searching the window at your hen feeders or in your yard. Join Master Gardeners on Saturday, January 27, 2024, at 10:00 AM for The Bird Garden workshop. Learn how one can create a bird-friendly surroundings in your panorama. It will embrace what to plant to draw birds, the type of parts so as to add to your backyard, together with water options, birdhouses, safety for birds, and what to feed them. For extra info and to register go to https://extension.psu.edu/the-bird-garden or name 1-877-345-0691 to register with out organising an account.
Count birds this yr, enhance your panorama, and see what your counts are subsequent February.
This is a good time of the yr to see birds within the winter timber. Spend as little as quarter-hour in your favourite locations watching birds. Then establish them, depend them, and submit the info to assist scientists higher perceive and defend birds world wide. Full directions and recommendations on counting the birds is at
Why depend birds? The Cornell Bird Lab notes that “Bird populations are constantly changing. No one scientist, or team of scientists, can keep track of the complicated movement of species around the world.” Individuals, and groups of strange residents, can turn into group scientists and file the species of birds and their numbers in their very own yard.
Information from the GBBC is added to different survey and knowledge assortment sources. Scientists can then learn the way birds are affected by environmental adjustments. When gathered over numerous years, the info can present how a species vary is altering and will point out that there are adjustments within the surroundings that want consideration. After 90 years of group scientist participation, the Audubon Society reported that “all groups of birds were seen responding to climate-related changes in temperature and precipitation” affecting their winter ranges.
The GBBC is a good household exercise. Bundle up, seize a pencil and pad, and take a brief winter hike or take turns watching the hen feeder in your yard. For academics and homeschoolers, the Cornell Bird Lab [ has an abundance of on-line academic assets that could be of curiosity. There are FREE downloadable classes, golf equipment, and group science applications for Okay-12 and data for Undergrad and Grad college students, too.
