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Christmas Bird Count - Compilers Manual
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Christmas Bird Count - Compilers Manual
The Christmas Bird Count, started by Frank Chapman along with 26 other conservationists, was a way of promoting conservation by counting, rather than hunting, birds on Christmas Day of 1900. Now in its second century,
it has evolved into far more than just another holiday tradition. The CBC, to quote Geoff LeBaron, the CBC Director, “increasingly accepted by ornithologists and conservationists alike as the best, if not only, tool available for assessing the long-term trends in the early winter bird populations of North America". With the cumulative historical CBC data now on-line, there are many thousands of individual counts from December 25, 1900 to the present available for perusal and scientific research.