The Great Backyard Bird Count is almost here! We’d like to remind you that the 12th annual Great Backyard Bird Count takes place this coming Friday through Monday, Feb. 13-16. We hope you’ll join bird watchers in your town and across North America who are planning to tally the birds they see in backyards, park, nature centers, and public lands. File your reports online at <http://www.birdcount.org/>www.birdcount.org where you can see results showing up on our maps in real time. The Great Backyard Bird Count, hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, includes a photo contest and drawings for great prizes awarded to participants. Most importantly it gathers a massive amount of data about where the birds are, and in what numbers, during late winter. All this information goes into databases that scientists use to better understand the movement and distribution of bird populations. The information you give us gets more and more valuable as we track the impacts of habitat loss, climate change, and disease on our birds over time. If you’ve never participated beforegive it a try! If you’re a veteran of the GBBC, thank youand keep counting! Thank you for caring about the birds. Your friends at the Great Backyard Bird Count ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]