Invermere Christmas Bird Count Dec. 16

Great gray owl, posing on a department on benchlands close to Wilmer. Pat Morrow photograph

Started in 1900, the annual Christmas Bird Count is North America’s longest-running Citizen Science challenge.

The depend focuses on the winter hen inhabitants, which is sort of completely different from summer time, as many birds depart our space for hotter climes and different species arrive from the far north.

The data collected by 1000’s of volunteer members types one of many world’s largest units of wildlife survey knowledge and is used each day by biologists to evaluate inhabitants traits and distribution of birds. The outcomes of all counts 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. The Invermere space depend might be held this 12 months on Saturday, Dec. 16. We invite all folks (new and skilled birders alike) to take part on this 12 months’s depend.

If you have an interest in becoming a member of us for a day to depend our feathered buddies within the Invermere space, please contact the person proven under, convey your binoculars, digicam or simply your self, and we are going to do our greatest to match you with a bunch of skilled birders for the outing.

At the tip of the day on Saturday, birders collect for an elective potluck dinner to get to know each other higher, and change notes in regards to the day.

Another solution to take part is to look at and depend the birds at your feeder. For particulars, contact the coordinator proven under earlier than the day of the depend.

Please observe that your location must be throughout the depend circle (12km radius from Wilmer).

Christmas Bird Count Coordinator for the Invermere space: Gareth Thomson – electronic mail: [email protected]

Lead picture: Rachel Darvill, the Columbia Wetlands Waterbird Survey (CWWS) program biologist, coaches practically frost-bitten citizen scientists on survey strategies at Wilmer wetlands. Pat Morrow photograph

Invermere Christmas Bird Count Dec. 16

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