Scheduling & Reporting Hours: Volunteers are asked to spend time counting birds within assigned regions and report the data to the coordinator at the end of the day. Count areas are assigned by the coordinator. There is usually a post count gathering the evening of the count to tally the results.
Examples of Bird Surveys include:
- Breeding Bird Atlas: A five-year survey of the breeding birds of Maryland and Washington, DC. Birders are assigned very specific areas to search for all nesting species. Nesting behavior such as bringing material or food to a possible nest, or observing fledglings ready to fly, must be observed and recorded.
- Christmas Counts: Each winter, volunteers from all over the U.S. conduct bird counts for the National Audubon Society. Now more than 100 years running, the Count provides important data on the long term trends of bird populations in our area. Calvert County participates in 2 of these Counts. The Jug Bay circle encompasses the northern third of the County and the Patuxent River Count extends into the southern third. Count dates usually occur the third Sunday of December and the Sunday following Christmas respectively.
Contact Gene Groshon at gene.groshon@calvertcountymd.gov for additional information or to participate.
Spring Warbler Id Charts. From Cornell Lab
