{"id":13998,"date":"2014-01-05T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=13998"},"modified":"2014-01-05T08:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T13:10:58","slug":"the-2013-christmas-bird-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/01\/05\/the-2013-christmas-bird-count\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2013 Christmas bird count"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Birders<\/a>

Birders flocked to get good views of rare ducks on Lake Champlain last year. Photo: Larry Master<\/p><\/div>\n

Public radio: it’s your go-to source for important, hard-hitting topics so often ignored by main-stream media. Such as the annual Christmas Bird Count<\/a>, a popular event in environmental circles in the U.S. and Canada<\/a>, as shown by this map of counting <\/a>efforts.<\/p>\n

Well, to be fair, mainstream media covers this too. As with this article by Michael Lea for the Kingston Whig-Standard:”More than 42,000 spotted in annual count<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

Unchanged since 1948, that 25-km circle takes in parts of Wolfe Island and stretches through the army base, Kingston Mills and Collins Bay. The area provides a good representation of both land birds and water fowl.<\/p>\n

The conditions were \u201ctough,\u201d said Ron Weir, honorary president of the Kingston Field Naturalists, who sponsored the local count.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did the best we could in the situation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was really, really cold and the wind was blowing and the snow was flying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While many of the counts have already finished, the span for this year’s count runs from Dec 14 through Jan 5th. The year-after-year contribution by citizen scientists supplies valuable information about what’s happening for birds and their natural ranges in these changing times.<\/p>\n

If you participated in one of this winter’s bird counts, please feel free to share comments about how that went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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