[Birdtalk] Tooele Bird Count tomorrow

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  John: 
  If you log onto the National Audubon web page at: http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/history.html you can learn the answer to your questions. Here is a brief example of what you will find there:
  
  Prior to the turn of the century, people engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas "Side Hunt": They would choose sides and go afield with their guns; whoever brought in the biggest pile of feathered (and furred) quarry won. Conservation was in its beginning stages around the turn of the 20th century, and many observers and scientists were becoming concerned about declining bird populations. Beginning on Christmas Day 1900, ornithologist Frank Chapman, an early officer in the then budding Audubon Society, proposed a new holiday tradition-a "Christmas Bird Census"-that would count birds in the holidays rather than hunt them. So began the Christmas Bird Count. Thanks to the inspiration of Frank M. Chapman and the enthusiasm of twenty-seven dedicated birders, twenty-five Christmas Bird Counts were held that day. The locations ranged from Toronto, Ontario to Pacific Grove, California with most counts in or near the population centers of northeastern North America. Those original 27 Christmas Bird Counters tallied a total of 90 species on all the counts combined.   First CBC: December 25, 1900
 About 18,500 individual birds and 27 total participants
 Cumulative bird species list:
 90 species total 
  Follow this link: http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/ for "the rest of the story."
  
 Happy New Year to all!
 
 Regards,
    Bill Fenimore
 Utah Audubon Policy Advocate
 1860 North 1000 West
 Layton, UT 84041-1858
 801-525-8400 Business
 801-525-8415 Fax
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 -----Original Message-----
 From: jmorgan480 at comcast.net
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 Sent: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 3:11 PM
 Subject: Re: [Birdtalk] Tooele Bird Count tomorrow
 
  What is the history behind these Christmas bird counts? Why are they done, and for whom? Where does the survey information go? John  ----- Original Message -----  From: KC  To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org  Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:51 PM Subject: [Birdtalk] Tooele Bird Count tomorrow 
  Tomorrow is the Tooele Christmas Bird Count. It looks like it should be a good day. Keep my fingers crossed. But if you would like to join us we can use all the help we can get. We are meeting at 8:00 A.M. at the Tooele McDonalds on Main Street in town. If you are in Provo and need a ride I would be glad to give you a ride. Just call me. 801-369-5984. Hope to see some of you out there.
 
 KC Childs
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