Colorado now has one vacant BBS route -- does any Cobirder want to
take it on? Here's the description:
17314 Burlington Kit Carson County DeLorme p. 102
Starts on CR 57 at CR KK; south 7 miles, one mile west, south on CR
56 five miles, east one mile, south (across I-70 miles east of Burlington) and
south on CR 57 eleven miles to end.
And here's the pitch about BBS routes:
We invite qualified observers to participate in the Breeding Bird
Survey. Participants must have the skills to identify the likely species on
their routes by sight and by sound.
A BBS route covers 24.5 miles. Observers record all the birds they
hear and see during a 3-minute stop, then drive a half-mile to the next stop.
You run the route, once only, during the peak of the songbird singing season,
from May 25 on the plains to July 15 in the high country. The ability to
identify species by sound is crucial--I estimate that I record 75-85% of the
birds on my routes by sound, not sight.
We seek a commitment of three years, because the BBS doesn't use
route data unless the same person runs it for at least 3 years. The observer
should have the ability to identify, by sound and sight, most of the species
likely to occur along that route.
Since 1966 (1968 in Colorado and the West) the Patuxent Wildlife
Research Center, originally US Fish & Wildlife Service, and now the Biological
Research Division of the US Geological Survey, has sponsored the Breeding Bird
Survey program to monitor birds across the US (and Canada, with the Canadian
Wildlife Service). In 2002, volunteers ran almost 3000 routes in the US &
Canada. They call the project the "Breeding Bird Survey" - hence "BBS."
Scientists use results from the BBS to derive population trends for the species
that the system samples well.
Colorado has 132 designated BBS routes, and we consistently run
more routes than all other states in the U.S. except Texas and California. In
2007 we ran about 100 of the 132 routes.
Let me know if you would like one or more. Provide me your mailing
address, telephone, and email address so I can sign you up.
Hugh Kingery
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