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org Audubon's Annual Christmas Bird Count
This is Talk of the Nation, Science Friday. I'm Ira Flatow. Whether you're crunching through those snowy forests in the Northeast or peering at forest canopies in Guatemala, birders in the Amazon towards the Arctic are out there right now, tallying the birds all around them, and that's because we're right in the middle of the Audubon's Annual Christmas Bird Count. It is the 109th year running, since Christmas Day in 1900, when ornithologist Frank Chapman proposed a bird census instead of a conventional holiday hunt, in which the objective back then was to shoot and kill and produce home the most feathered creatures, even a few of the furry ones that you found along the way you could.
But back in that newbie, there have been 27 participants in the Christmas Count, plus they totaled up 90 species of birds, including hawks, chickadees, sparrows, woodpeckers and loons, but the count has grown and altered just a bit since that time. This past year,doudoune canada goose, nearly 60,000 bird watchers got out their binoculars no weapons and they spotted over 2,000 species. We're going to talk over some of those birds and birding with my next guest, and if you've been out there with your binoculars, too, perhaps you have seen something good? Or you can't evaluate which you saw. Give us a call. We'll try to figure out what it is, and we might prefer to hear what you have been watching, if you're out there in the bird count.
Ms. DREGER: Our assignment would be to do an hourandahalf walk in Prospect Park. So, how do we count birds? I know a lot of people want to know. Whenever you count birds, well, let's say you see five sparrows right here, after which let's say they're exactly the same five sparrows which are there? So, we have a large amount of people here today one, two, three, four,parajumpers gobi pas cher, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, oh, about 14 people. So, there's 14 teams of eyes. What we should want to do is you want to count the birds that we see simultaneously. So, right now, what do we have seen on the lake? On the low water here, one, two, three,moncler pas cher chine, four are they all mallards?
Mr. LEBARON: The checklist is really a full list of the birds that you have seen at anyone spot. For instance, on New Year's Day, I'll be walking for about eight hours, and I'll create a listing of probably 40 species, I hope. And that i possess a number for each of the species, you know, 17 song sparrows or three pileated woodpeckers, five house sparrows and so forth. So, that complete checklist is a tally from the birds that were at one spot having a given amount of effort by a birder. So, we accumulate all those over the continent, and we're now actually expressing some remarkable patterns of bird movements and relative abundance, continentwide.
Mr. LEBARON: Absolutely. You can as long as you live within a Christmas count circle. They are two I mean, as we've been told by their experiences last weekend, the folks go out in the field and count birds that way, but if someone does actually live within Christmas count circle and each named count is performed conducted within a 15mile diameter circle each year and it's always exactly the same area if you reside within that circle, you'll be able to also count the birds that at the feeder. So, absolutely. And that we, on the Christmas Count, actually, we also, there's an accountspecific checklist for each therefore the good reputation for each count that's included in the database. So, checklists are sort of the center and soul associated with a of the pointcount sort of methodology stuff that are so essential for this in science.
CINDY: My home is the foothills of Appalachia, and i have lived for three years, and that i live in a surrounded by woods. And last spring, I began hearing at dusk an attractive bird call, and all sorts of my rural neighbors who've lived here all of their lives said, oh, this is a whippoorwill. Well, my older daughter who is very intelligent and astute said, no, Mom, that's a chuckwill'swidow you're hearing. And she or he pulled up the different sounds on the web, and sure enough, it was chuckwill'swidow. And I actually saw one, because they, In my opinion, they blend right in on the ground. That's where they sleep, or on low branch, and I startled one. It had just called,parajumpers jakke oslo, and it took off. It had been the right at sunset. It was beautiful.
FLATOW: We're talking with Geoff LeBaron, who's the Christmas Bird Count director for the National Audubon Society, and John Fitzpatrick may be the director from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, Ny. 18009982555. We will take a rest. When we come back, we'll catch up with those birders out in Brooklyn, see what they're what the type of results they were given. Also, we'll take more of the questions you have; people have birds they've heard they want help to identify. So, we'll ask Geoff and John to place their bird caps on again. And stay around. We'll be right back following the short break.
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