Interesting thinky opinion piece in today’s New York Times about the mesmerizing habit of birdwatching, and what truths are revealed when one taps into the rhythm of avifauna: We can’t escape trying to see the future through birds. Too many canaries were deployed to detect gas leaks in coal mines, too many ravens launched from [...]

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  (Photo: 11:45 am in Fairbanks. Finally, some light!) I met my group three hours before dawn—not hard to do in Fairbanks, Alaska, in December since sunrise is at nearly 11:00AM—to look for owls. It was my first Christmas count here. We hoped to hear hooting near the airport where owls had appeared on previous [...]

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Each year I await the opportunity to participate in Christmas Bird Counts for many reasons. While I spend many days throughout the year birding, I generally do it solo. I have participated in six counts this season and enjoyed every single one of them because of the birds and the opportunity to see old friends. [...]

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Courtesy Alison Sheehey, while taking part in the Tejon Ranch Audubon Christmas Bird Count a couple days ago. Share on Facebook

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The Audubon Christmas Bird Count hit one of California’s most spectacular landscapes today, the Tejon Ranch. You might recall that this is a new count, enabled by 2008′s landmark Tejon Ranch Agreement, which opened up this incredible landscape to science. Anyway, our Audubon Christmas Bird Count correspondent Alison Sheehey took these on the ranch’s south [...]

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Our Audubon Christmas Bird Count correspondent, Alison Sheehey, just sent us this photo of fellow-birder Ellen Schafhauser surveying a section of permanently protected land on the Bear Valley Springs CBC. Audubon and many partners helped to secure protection from development on this section of Tejon Ranch. The Tejon Ranch Conservancy is an appreciated partner of [...]

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Audubon California’s Andrea Jones sent in this report and photos from the fifth annual Santa Cruz Island Audubon Christmas Bird Count: This year, 25 intrepid birders from Audubon California, The Nature Conservancy, UCSB, PRBO Conservation Science, National Park Service, and Audubon volunteers traveled out to Santa Cruz Island. Each year brings different stories, birds, and [...]

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We are now six days into the Audubon Christmas Bird Count season and I have finished my third count. Yesterday we saw 58 species of birds in our territory on Kern County’s Buena Vista CBC and with everyone’s effort the preliminary tally was 115 species. I have compiled this count every year except one since I [...]

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For the past several years, member of the Arroyo Green Team have participated in Aududon’s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This year, members headed out into Debs Park to see what birds were around.

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Birders have begun scouring the hillsides across North America. Yesterday in California, birders from the north to the south along the coast and in the deserts censused birds in the first 7 of 137 scheduled Audubon Christmas Bird Count circles in the state. There is still time to join. Contact the compilers listed at Nature Ali [...]

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After nearly two years of internal discussions, budget modeling, head-scratching, and intense decision-making, two major changes will come to the Christmas Bird Count effective with the upcoming 113th Count that runs Dec. 14, 2012 to Jan. 5, 2013. First, the CBC will now be a free program. For the first time since 1955, Audubon will waive the $5 participant fee and replace it with [...]

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Cool story about Wintu Audubon’s Bill Oliver, who is using decades of Audubon Christmas Bird Count data to get a picture of how birds in the Redding area are faring. His take: Redding has more egrets and turkey vultures, but fewer meadowlarks and kestrels. Yellow-rumped warblers and hooded mergansers are holding their own … ”We’re doing [...]

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The 2011/2012 Audubon Christmas Bird Count visited remote Santa Cruz Island (23 miles off Southern California) on Dec. 19. Audubon California was there and interviewed a few of the participants: Share on Facebook

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Want to hear your voice on the radio? Would you like to brag to your friends that you were on NPR? National Audubon Society Chief Scientist (and Audubon California alum) will be on NPR Science Friday today at 12:30 PM PT and we are inviting YOU to call in and talk about what you’ve seen [...]

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Funny little poem from Greg Cook, from the El Dorado Audubon Society in Long Beach. Share on Facebook

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