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Great Backyard Bird Count

February 22 , 2022 949 days 614 0
  • It is a four-day global event.
  • The first day of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) began on a high note with citizens recording 251 bird species across Karnataka.
  • It is an online citizen science or community science project.
  • It was first launched in 1998 by Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.
  • The importance of the event is that it helps the scientists better understand the global bird population before one of their annual migrations.
  • The data is entered into eBird, the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science (community science) project.

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