Bronx-Westchester Christmas Bird Count

Sunday, December 26, 2010

This year's count will be held on SUNDAY, December 26, 2010. If you plan to join us on the count, please call me or the appropriate regional leader listed below. If any of the area leaders cannot continue as leader give me a call. This year's participation fee will remain at $5.00 for participants.

The compilation dinner has changed! This year the compilation dinner will be at the Lenoir Nature Center, 19 Dudley Street in Yonkers. The cost is only $10 and we'll have a great selection of hot food and fabulous homemade desserts by the great bakers from the Hudson River Audubon Society. The center will be open by 4:30 PM for those who need a place to meet and total up your birds or just warm up. The food and count down will begin at 6:00 PM or when the groups have their numbers ready.

Directions to Lenoir: From Saw Mill River Pkwy: Exit at Exit 9,
Executive Blvd. Take Executive Blvd. to North Broadway and turn right.
Go 1/4 mile and turn left onto Dudley Street. Lenoir's parking lot is on
the left. See map on back. My cell phone is 914-953-7409.

I hope to see you on this year's count and at the compilation. Good luck
and good birding.

Michael Bochnik - Compiler

  Count your birds at your own feeder 

All the Birds (Complete records from 1924 to present in an Excel spreadsheet) coming soon!

       Help gather information on local bird populations in the 85th year of the count.

If you're looking for a local birding activity that's not only fun and exciting, but helps with valuable winter bird population data, come on out and help the Bronx-Westchester Christmas Bird Count. It is a census near Christmas of the number of each species of bird seen in a 24-hour period in a particular area or count circle. 

    The count will be held on Sunday December 27, 2009. It has an 86-year history and was started by the famed Bronx County Bird Club in 1924. The count has included participants such as Roger Tory Peterson and Allan D. Cruickshank.

    The Bronx-Westchester count is organized by dividing the count circle (radius 7.5 miles) up into 6 regional areas; East Bronx, West Bronx, Yonkers, Hudson Valley (Hastings area), Rye (Rye and Harrison), and Scarsdale (which covers Scarsdale through Mt. Vernon over to New Rochelle and north to Mamaroneck). Each area leader then assigns parts of the area to different teams or "parties". Each party canvas the area assigned and counts and tabulates all they have seen. The results are compiled later that evening at the Count Dinner. Restaurant to be named. Attendance to the dinner is optional.

     The results are placed on the web along with data from years past. There is a $5.00 participation fee for field observers to help offset the cost of the count and its data.

     People with feeders can include their birds by calling in their results in the afternoon. They should contact the count compiler before the 23rd for additional information.

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