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Self-Guided Great Backyard Bird Count
February 15 β February 187 AM – 6 PM
Meeting Locations: Can be done at Rocky Fork State Park, at home, or any outdoor place.
Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more days of the four-day event and report their sightings online. Anyone can take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, from beginning bird watchers to experts, and you can participate from your backyard, or anywhere in the world. http://gbbc.birdcount.org/
1. Create a free GBBC account at https://secure.birds.cornell.edu/cassso/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Flogin%2Fcas%3Fportal%3Dgbbc&locale=en_US
If you have never participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count or any other Cornell Lab citizen-science project, or have not participated in the GBBC since 2013.
2. Count birds at Rocky Fork State Park, at your house, or some other outdoor space for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the GBBC. You can count for longer than that if you wish! Count birds in as many places and on as many days as you likeβone day, two days, or all four days. Submit a separate checklist for each new day, for each new location, or for the same location if you counted at a different time of day. Estimate the number of individuals of each species you saw during your count period.
3. Enter your results on the GBBC website by clicking link https://secure.birds.cornell.edu/cassso/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Febird.org%2Flogin%2Fcas%3Fportal%3Dgbbc&locale=en_US -OR- you may also download the free eBird Mobile app to enter data on a mobile device. If you already participate in the eBird citizen-science project, please use eBird to submit your sightings during the GBBC. Your checklists will count toward the GBBC.
Each checklist submitted during the GBBC helps researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society learn more about how birds are doing, and how to protect them and the environment we share.
If you want to use the BIRDS OF ROCKY FORK WATERSHED CHECKLIST to help you, you can find it here: https://tnstateparks.com/assets/pdf/additional-content/rocky-fork_birds-of-rocky-fork-watershed_checklist-logo.pdf
