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URL:https://newtonconservators.org/events/newton-christmas-bird-count-2024
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SUMMARY:Newton Christmas Bird Count 2024
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to be a Citizen Scientist? Do you want to know m
 ore about local birds? You can do both by joining the Newton Christmas Bir
 d Count on Sunday\, December 15th! Groups of birders head out in the morni
 ng to open space areas of Newton to count birds on that date and report ba
 ck the numbers for each species seen. Birding experience is not required s
 ince you will be part of a small group with an experienced leader.\n\nBird
 ers will meet at 7 am in Newton Highlands\, divide into groups and then di
 sperse to areas around the city to count birds.  For the very early birde
 rs who want to count owls\, a group will be heading out at 5 am if  it's 
 not raining or snowing.  Later that day\, the Newton count data from the 
 groups is combined with data from other areas within the Greater Boston co
 unt circle.\n\nSome of the areas covered by the groups include: Newton Sou
 th\, Kennard\, Saw Mill\, Houghton Gardens\, Hammond Pond and Webster Wood
 s Newton Cemetery\, City Hall\, Edmands Park\, Bullough’s Pond\, Cold Sp
 ring\, Mason Rice / Newton Centre\, Crystal Lake\, Newton Commonwealth Gol
 f Course\, Chandler Pond\, Charles River (from Watertown to Waltham)\, Cal
 vary Swamp\, and the Cheesecake Brook area.\n\nThe National Audubon Societ
 y organizes the overall worldwide count\, which is described on their webs
 ite: https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count Th
 e Newton count is part of the Greater Boston count circle\, one  of very 
 many across the country!  Expert birder\, Peter Alden\, wrote an article\
 , “How a Christmas Bird Count Works”\, about what happens in a count:
  https://www.sparkbirding.com/post/inside-a-christmas-bird-count.\n\nIf y
 ou are interested in joining the count this year\, please register at  ht
 tps://newtonconservators.org/events/newton-christmas-bird-count-2024/.  R
 egistrants will receive more details by email as the date grows closer. Ou
 r Newton count is organized by Liane Hartnett (lianehartnett26@gmail.com).
  The Newton count is part of the Greater Boston count circle\, one  of ve
 ry many across the country!  The most common question people tend to ask 
 is “how do you know that you don’t count the same bird twice?” Well\
 , you can’t know for certain\, but we try our best!  It's notable that 
 we often do see four calling birds or even seven swans a swimming\, but no
 t a partridge in a pear tree!
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