"Big
Year" of Birding in Lake Park
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2006
- What's a "Big Year"? http://tinyurl.com/b7uvz
"Hoping to be the one to spot the most species during
the course of the
year, birders spends 365 days racing around the continental U.S.
and Canada compiling lists of birds, all for the glory of being
recognized by the American Birding Association as the Big Year birding
champion of North America."
- What is
the Lake Park version of a Big Year of Birding?
- Cooperative effort to document each species seen in Lake Park
in 2006.
- Why have a Big
Year of Birding in Lake Park?
- It's a fun way to challenge ourselves to learn more about
birds and meet other birders.
- It will document the importance of Lake Park as a migratory
stopover for many species.
- How can birders get involved in the Big
Year of Birding in Lake Park?
- Get your binoculars and get out into the Park!
- Go birding on your own
- Join Paul Hunter on Duck
Watches and Warbler
Walks
- Schedule an event for a school, scout troop or
environmental group.
- Use eBird.com to record
any
and all sightings in the Park during 2006.
- In "Step 1" of "submit your observations" to
eBird choose from "Birding Hot Spots" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Use the "hotspot" of "Lake Park - Locust
Ravine" for any part of the Park west of Lincoln Memorial Drive
- Use the "hotspot" of "Bradford Beach - North
Point" for anything east of Lincoln Memorial.
- Feel free to use the "casual" observation type
to enter just the species you are interested in
- More detailed info on numbers of
individuals of
all species seen, if you have time.
"Birding
for Fun ... and for Science: eBird.com"
- 7 - 8:30 PM on Thursday, March 30, 2006
- at Urban Ecology Center
- Learn to use eBird.com to
- keep your personal birding list and
- contribute to ornithological research
- Speaker: Andy Paulios
- Co-sponsored by Lake Park Friends and Urban Ecology
Center
Birders of all levels will use eBird to document as many
species as possible in Lake Park during 2006 as part of the "Big Year
of Birding". eBird allows birders to contribute to
scientific research as they keep personal records of sightings.
Andy Paulios works for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
and coordinates the Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative. Let
Andy Paulios and the big screen show you the simplicity and
power of eBird.