Today"s the first day of the 121st annual Christmas Bird Count, said to be the largest and longest-running citizen science project in the world. For the next 23 days, through January 5, thousands of volunteers around the US, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Islands will join members of the National Audubon Society for this important endeavor in the study and protection of birds. Together, they"ll scour the woods, fields, and lakes of their respective regions (or just watch their bird feeders), to take a census of the individual birds and species they find.
I see one!
Today in History
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Manarola, Cinque Terre National Park, Liguria, Italy
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World Sea Turtle Day
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‘Hello’ from zero degrees longitude
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Via Krupp, Capri, Italy
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Mesmerizing murmuration
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Have fun storming the castle
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Great horned owl near Lake Tohopekaliga, Florida
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Male kori bustard, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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Ludwig’s palace
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International Day of Color
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A sleeping green giant
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Breaking the fast for Eid
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Darwin Day
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Heceta Head Light, Florence, Oregon
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Here s looking Atchafalaya
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Computer Science EDU Week
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
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World Reef Awareness Day
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An historic forest
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Northern gannets, Shetland Islands, Scotland
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A cliffside harbor in Sardinia
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Entoloma hochstetteri mushroom at Lake Mahinapua, New Zealand
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Borovets ski resort in Bulgaria
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Endangered Species Day
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Earth Science Week
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Brown pelican, San Diego, California
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Halloween
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What are these creatures?
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