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versary of the original Christmas Bird Count, taken on Christmas Day 1900 by an intrepid group of strollers in 25 locations, mostly around major northeastern cities. Since then the annual event has grown from its original 25 to 1500, and the total number of participants from 27 to well over 35,000.
This year every Canadian province, every American state, many Central American countries, and numerous West Indies islands will submit their results to the National Audubon Society, which supervises the affair and publishes all the counts in its journal, American Birds.
The count itself is undoubtedly the biggest birding event of the year and means days and weeks of planning strategy and logistics in trying to amass, in a single calendar day, the biggest possible list of birds in the designated area. By tradition that “count area” is a circle (which cannot overlap another circle) of 15mile diameter, or roughly 177 square miles.
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