Overview
- Audubon says last season recorded 2,693 counts by more than 83,000 participants across North America, South America and the Caribbean.
- Organizers report the current season is on pace for another participation record, with circles selecting a single day between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5 to count every bird detected.
- Thunder Bay, Ontario, held its Boxing Day count with more than 50 volunteers surveying 15 zones, continuing a local tradition dating to 1939.
- Michigan birders described inclusive options that enable at-home participation, while field teams logged species from woodpeckers to a short-eared owl and a bald eagle.
- Researchers draw on the dataset to document widespread declines since the 1970s and to track seasonal shifts such as waterfowl lingering farther north, with talk of a snowy owl influx still unconfirmed.