Big Garden Birdwatch 2022!
By Fleur
@Fleura (30404)
United Kingdom
January 28, 2022 4:03am CST
For anyone in the UK - today is the day of the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2022!
This is a ‘citizen science’ project that began in 1979. Since then more and more people have been joining in - more than a million last year! It gives a snapshot of the UK’s garden bird populations and provides valuable data on changes over time.
All you have to do is spend an hour (doesn’t even have to be all in one go) keeping an eye on what birds come to your garden or local patch of park/woodland, balcony or whatever. Then make a note of the most you see of any species at one time.
The survey can be carried out any time today, tomorrow or Sunday.
For more details see https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch
Of course this is just giving me another excuse to look out of the window and avoid submitting my tax return 
All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16762)
• China
28 Jan 22
The project is benefitial to ecology and environment .Be a bird watcher,you have to identify those birds first.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16762)
• China
29 Jan 22
@Fleura Oh,It is no mean feat to be able to name varieties of birds that fly into your garden !
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@Fleura (30404)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan 22
@changjiangzhibin89 It's not so difficult if you just learn to recognise one by one.
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@Fleura (30404)
• United Kingdom
28 Jan 22
It seems that Birds Canada runs a similar project called 'Project Feederwatch'
which you can do on any two days from November through April (I guess you can do it more than once if you're interested)
The catch is that you have to be a member of Birds Canada to take part - but it does say 'Your donation of any amount makes you a member and your membership is valid for the rest of that year' so you could just donate a few cents!
https://www.birdscanada.org/you-can-help/project-feederwatch/
@LadyDuck (471451)
• Switzerland
28 Jan 22
@Fleura I have many different species coming in my garden. I tried to take photos because I do not know the names of them all. The surveys is 4 times a year, every time during one week. They want to cover the 4 seasons. I have the two birds in the photo, I like birds.
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@Fleura (30404)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan 22
@LadyDuck The black and grey crows are hooded crows. We get the closely-related carrion crows, all black
Also the Eurasian jay (on the same page) - yes those are what we see here. They eat acorns and we are next to woods with oak trees so they are quite common in our garden.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/crow-family/
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@BarBaraPrz (47346)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Jan 22
Can you identify those birds in your pic? Please?
@peachpurple (13962)
• Malaysia
28 Jan 22
We do not have this event but we do have pigeons crows snd mynah which are pest to public
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