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Celebrating Christmas Bird Counts

What grew from a traditional contest of who could kill the most birds has become an annual event that might be responsible for saving entire bird species. It is the Christmas Bird Count, in which tens of thousands of people spend a day recording every bird they come across. The National Audubon Society's Geoff LeBaron heads up the 103rd annual event...

What began just over a hundred years ago as a way to promote bird conservation has become an annual holiday event for tens of thousands across North America. It is the Christmas Bird Count now in its 103rd year. Heading up this year's count is Audubon's Geoff LeBaron...

While tens of thousands of volunteers are helping with Christmas Bird Counts in roughly 2,000 areas in North America, Florida is well represented. And organizers say this time of year may pose some very interesting differences for bird-counters in Florida...

While the tens of thousands of participants in this year's Christmas Bird Count might be content with spending a day in the out of doors or spotting some birds they might not otherwise notice, this year's 103rd annual Christmas Bird Count adds another chapter of data to a story that might at any time point out a problem in our environment...

For more than 100 years, bird enthusiasts have used the Christmas season as a time to spend an entire day in the outdoors, counting and making a record of every bird they can see. Called the Christmas Bird Count, it provides one of the longest-running records of bird population in North America. And Audubon's Geoff LeBaron says technology is making that data even more useful...