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Audubon's Christmas Bird Count From December 14, 2007 to January 5, 2008 , the National Audubon Society’s longest-running wintertime tradition, the annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC), will take place throughout the Americas . During the 108th CBC, approximately 55,000 volunteers of all skill levels are expected to take part in this census of birds. The CBC began over a century ago when 27 conservationists in 25 localities, led by scientist and writer Frank Chapman, changed the course of ornithological history. On Christmas Day in 1900, the small group posed an alternative to the “side hunt,” a Christmas day activity in which teams competed to see who could shoot the most birds and small mammals. Instead, Chapman proposed to identify, count, and record all the birds they saw, founding what is now considered to be the world's most significant citizen-based conservation effort – and what has become a more than century-old institution. Count results from 1900 to the present are available through Audubon's website www.audubon.org/bird/cbc. An excellent summary of this year’s counts in Washington State can be found on the Washington Ornithological Society’s website at www.wos.org Join a Christmas Bird Count in your area this year!
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BRIDGEPORT
Saturday, December 15 Meredith Spencer, merdave@homenetnw.net or 509-686-7551 . CHELAN CLE ELUM Wednesday, December 19 LEAVENWORTH MOSES LAKE Okanogan-Omak TWISP
Saturday, December 29 Cary Campbell, bearfight@methownet.com WENATCHEE Sunday, December 30 Dan Stephens, dstephens@wvc.edu or 509-663-5323 (h) or 509-682-6752 (w)
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