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URL:https://newtonconservators.org/events/newton-christmas-bird-count-2026
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SUMMARY:Newton Christmas Bird Count 2026
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 20th! 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 at 1 Raeburn Terrace\, Newton Highlands\, divide int
 o groups and then disperse to areas around the city to count birds.  For 
 the very early birders who want to count owls\, a group may 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 count circle.\n\nSome of the areas covered by the group
 s include: Newton South\, Kennard\, Saw Mill\, Houghton Gardens\, Hammond 
 Pond and Webster Woods Newton Cemetery\, City Hall\, Edmands Park\, Bullou
 gh’s Pond\, Cold Spring\, Mason Rice / Newton Centre\, Crystal Lake\, Ne
 wton Commonwealth Golf Course\, Chandler Pond\, Charles River (from Watert
 own to Waltham)\, Calvary Swamp\, and the Cheesecake Brook area.\n\nThe Na
 tional Audubon Society organizes the overall worldwide count\, which is de
 scribed on their website: https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/ch
 ristmas-bird-count The Newton count is part of the Greater Boston count c
 ircle\, one  of very many across the country!  Expert birder\, Peter Ald
 en\, wrote an article\, “How a Christmas Bird Count Works”\, about wha
 t happens in a count: https://www.sparkbirding.com/post/inside-a-christma
 s-bird-count.  The Newton count is part of the Greater Boston count circl
 e\, one  of very many across the country!\n\nIf you are interested in joi
 ning the count this year\, you can email organizer Liane Hartnett (lianeha
 rtnett26@gmail.com).   Then you can be alerted to any changes due to the
  weather and assigned to one of the count groups.\n\nThe most common quest
 ion people tend to ask is “how do you know that you don’t count the sa
 me bird twice?” Well\, you can’t know for certain\, but we try our bes
 t!  It’s notable that we often do see four calling birds or even seven 
 swans a swimming\, but not a partridge in a pear tree!
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CATEGORIES:Birding,Guided Walks,Guided Walks -- Other Organizations
LOCATION:1 Raeburn Terrace\, 1 Raeburn Terr\, Newton Highlands\, MA\, 02461
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