2020 Great Backyard Bird Count Results

Welcome back. The 2020 GBBC is in the books. It's always amazing to look at the count results on the website. The numbers are updated in real time. As I write this, over 232,000 checklists have been submitted worldwide, and roughly 6700 species have been observed.

In my county in NY State, 41 species were obseved by 15 participants. I observed 13 of the 41 species.

The species I observed at my feeders are as follows, and are quite typical for central NY State in February.

Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
Black-Capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-Breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Dark=Eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal

Why Count Birds?

Scientists use information from the Great Backyard Bird Count along with observations from other citizen-science projects
for various reasons, including:

How climate changes is affecting bird populations.

Tracking bird disease.

And much more.

So I hope you had a chance to paricipate, and if not, there is always next year.

Thanks for reading.