At 25, Backyard Bird Count shows power of citizen science...

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At 25, Backyard Bird Count shows power of citizen science...

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It’s a given that when the Great Backyard Bird Count begins Friday, Steve and Janet Kistler of Hart County, Kentucky, will be joining in. They’ve done so every year since the now-global tradition began 25 years ago.

For Moira Dalibor, a middle-school math teacher a couple hours away in Lexington, this will be the first count. She’s leading a group of students and parents to an arboretum for an exercise in data-gathering.

They’re expected to be among hundreds of thousands of people around the world counting and recording over four days. Last year, about 385,000 people from 192 countries took part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, or GBBC.


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We just got back from wintering in Florida last week. It was interesting identifying the different birds in Florida including a bird that I knew was a raptor but had never seen before called a Swallow tailed Kite. We also had a pair of large cranes in the development and a pair of Cardinals living on the property.