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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Audubon Christmas Bird Count Tally

The previous post highlights our day riding around counting birds in east Anchorage. Dianne picked us up again at 5ish and we took the new Elmore Road to the Campbell Creek Science Center for the tally of all the groups out counting birds today. 15,248 individual birds and 39 different species were counted. This is down from the last couple of years. But a lot of factors go into this - the weather, the number of people counting, luck....

Two new species (for the Anchorage Christmas Bird Count) were spotted:
  • 25 Northern Shovelers
  • 1 Brambling [I had "Bramble" but my birder friend Catherine reminded me it's Brambling]
The brambling brought the most ooos and aaaahs. Below is a brief video that will give you a general sense of the evening.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousSunday, December 16, 2007 at 2:11:00 PM AKST

    Steve, I loved the Christmas bird count video!!! Dianne

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