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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		How to Participate in this Year's Bird Count
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-01-18 09:00:00
	Description:		Do you enjoy watching birds at a backyard feeder? In this week's episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist talks about two backyard bird feeder surveys that take place every winter. In 1994 a United States Congressional Resolution proclaimed February as National Bird-Feeding Month. Ornithologists (bird scientists) generally agree that February is a critical month for bird survival. For 20 years now the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) has also been run in February, a good fit because it incorporates birds that visit backyard feeders. Last year the count operated February 13-15, during which time over 214,000 participants submitted upwards of 173,000 checklists, with more than 5,900 species being recorded. This is a notable example of citizen science in action, and it gives biologists a snapshot of bird species composition and abundance across North America. In 2016, there were at least 53 checklists submitted from Oneida County, which reported 32 bird species, the most common
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