The Kamloops Christmas Bird Count is scheduled for December 15 th .
For those of you who may be interested, but have not taken part before, or
don’t feel confident in your bird identification, let me put your mind at rest.
The count takes place within a circle centered on the top of Mt. Dufferin with
a 12 km radius. That circle is broken into 11 parts based on geographical
features or roads. Participants work in small groups, with at least one
accomplished birder in each group. The area can be covered by car, foot or
other means, such as a bike or boat. We attempt to count every species and
tally the number of birds of each species, without counting any individual
birds twice if possible. There is a 3-day window on each side of the count
day to allow us to include that rare bird that you saw the day before or that
shows up right after the count day. We can break up the 11 areas into sub
areas if we get more participants than can comfortably work in a small
group.
We also keep track of the effort put into the count – the number of
participants, the total number of hours put in and the total distance travelled
by vehicle and by other means.
We generally follow up with a pot luck dinner where we put all the individual
tallies together, however, you may email the tallies to the compiler if you
cannot take part in the post count tally.
Glenn Dreger has been organizing the participants for the past 2 years. His
email is gdreger@telus.net and cell is 250-318-6368. Contact Glenn if you
want more information or want to confirm your participation.