Hi birders,

Please consider the words of Paul Baicich, leading birder and
conservationist, spoken during the Ohio Ornithological Society Bird
Conservation Symposium this past weekend:

"Count something and make it count."

Invest purpose and satisfaction beyond enjoyment into your identification
records by investing the moments needed to add them to easy to use
databases. Contribute to citizen science.

Step one: Find a Christmas Bird Count near you today:
http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/winter_counts/overview.php
Counts happen from December 14 to January 5, annually.
Find the National site here:http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/
Call or Email the coordinator/compiler and offer to help. You have all the
fun while the compiler does the data entry for you.

Step two: Log into Ebird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ and begin entering
your own records, beginning with your feeder. It's very simple. Ebird can be
your personal database while using your records in combination with many
others to better understand abundance and distribution of your favorite
birds, and the many new birds you learn to identify as you pursue your
avocation.

Step three: Consider participating in organized counts like The Great
Backyard Bird Count http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ and
Project Feederwatch http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/.

Step four: Participate in the OHIO BREEDING BIRD ATLAS II for 2008 beginning
very soon http://www.ohiobirds.org/obba2/.

Keep your journal and your lists but make your time count for more than
paper. Make your gallons of gas count for more than enjoyable scenery.

Do any or all of these steps to help bring science to birding and birding to
science.

Your help is needed!

Tom Bain
The Glaciated Allegheny Plateau
Chair, OOS Conservation Committee

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