Backyard Bird Count Is This Weekend In Warminster

WARMINSTER, PA — The Audubon Society's 22nd annual Great Backyard Bird Count is this weekend and Warminster is taking part.

If you'd like to help document the type and number of birds in our area, you may join the Warminster Township Environmental Advisory Council at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17.

The group will be meeting at the EAC at Warminster Community Park, at 11 Veterans Way. They'll gather at the front ponds along the entrance road.

Participants will spend about two hours on the bird count and should bring binoculars and weather-appropriate clothing and boots.

The Audubon Society's annual count will be going on from Friday-Monday, Feb. 15-18.

Begun in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society, the count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and display the results in nearly real-time. In 2019, more than 160,000 people are expected to take part in the count, which creates an annual snapshot of the nation's distribution and abundance of birds.

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