The 110th season for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count has come to an end. In California, thousands of birders joined in an effort to survey birds at 130 Christmas Bird Count circles across the state. The one-day bird counts provide valuable data about the number of bird species occurring within a set geographic area. [...]

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Californians from all walks of life will take to the outdoors this holiday season to participate in the 110th annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, the longest-running wildlife census in the world. Between this Monday, Dec. 14, and Jan. 5, thousands of Californians will transform into volunteer scientists to assess the size of bird populations in [...]

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The Audubon Christmas Bird Count starts Dec. 14 in California and beyond. Want to know where the nearest count is here in California? We’ve got it all on our website. Happy birding.
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Are you ready to bird?
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Get fired up to count some birds, people.
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Audubon Magazine’s blog, The Perch, has a great post about how rangers at Año Nuevo State Natural Reserve are using a remote high definition camera to monitor wildlife on Año Nuevo Island just offshore. Audubon California knows Gary Strachan, the supervising ranger at Año Nuevo, well. In fact, just a few months ago, he led a [...]

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Sure, this video doesn’t have much to do with California, but it is kind of cool to see Audubon’s own John Flicker out there in the cold with the other volunteers in Central Park. Besides, it drives home the point that birds and nature aren’t just things for the remote wilderness, but things that we [...]

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KPCC public radio in Los Angles featured a nice segment on the Christmas Bird Count in Southern California recently. Graham Chisholm, our director of conservation, and Garry George, chapter network director, were both featured. Check it out here.
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The Audubon family lost one of its own over the weekend when Onik Arian was swept off a jetty in Crescent City while taking part in the annual Christmas Bird Count. Arian had been very active in the Conejo Valley Audubon Society. Truly sad news. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.
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Nice story in today’s Sacramento Bee about yesterday’s Christmas Bird Count at the Audubon California Bobcat Ranch Sanctuary in Yolo County. This count was part of a larger Putah Creek count, and included a bunch of Audubon California staffers from the Landowner Stewardship Program.
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