A Guide: What Even Is a Christmas Bird Count and Why You Should Do It

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Each year, for the last 115 years, the Audubon Society has counted every bird in all of North, Central, and northern South America for its Annual Christmas Bird Count. What is an Annual Christmas Bird Count? And why does it even exist? Good questions! Good questions with kind of disturbing answers. The Audubon Society’s annual bird count actually started as a reaction to a kind of awful-but-typical-of-America-in-1900 prac