file photo by Patrick Robinson
You can help birds around the world without even leaving home. Look in your backyard this weekend and count how many and what kind of birds you see and take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count.

Take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count!

You can help bird populations around the world and you don't even have to leave home.

Go out into your backyard and count them this weekend. The Great Backyard Bird Count goes on from Feb. 14 to Feb.17, 2014. Song birds populations around the world are on a rapid decline. The only way that scientists can figure out what is happening in different parts of the U.S.A. and the world is to get average citizens to go out and take data and send it into scientific labs. Go out into your yard or neighborhood this weekend and be a citizen scientist. Send your information back to The Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY.


