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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The Guggenheim turns 60
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Cloudy with a chance of enlightenment
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Avalanche Lake Trail at Adirondack High Peaks, New York
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A tree amid the Tetons
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Hohenzollern Castle near Stuttgart, Germany
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What happened to these clouds?
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It’s Giving Tuesday
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Pegadung Rock, Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia
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Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, US-Canada border
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Great wildebeest migration at Mara River, Kenya
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In the footsteps of Leopold Bloom
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Meandering through Patagonia
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Welcome to the Alien Egg Hatchery
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International Sloth Day
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Cherry blossoms spring to life
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Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
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Burrowing owls
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Ambassadors of the airwaves
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Earthrise on Moon Day
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Diwali
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Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China
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Make your list and check it twice
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Wildebeests in Maasai Mara, Kenya
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What s better than a smile?
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Star Wars Day
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Marine Day in Japan
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Happy birthday to Crater Lake National Park
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Acadia transformed
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It’s not a pinecone, it’s a pangolin
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Seven Magic Mountains art installation, Jean Dry Lake, Nevada
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