Latest update: 12 May 2008 Latest bulletins!

Mini Breeding Bird Surveys

Orange, Chatham, and Durham Counties

North Carolina

A Mini Breeding Bird Survey (MBBS) is a small-scale version of the full Breeding Bird Survey organized each year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service throughout North America.

An MBBS focuses on one county.   Volunteers count birds seen or heard along randomly chosen routes on secondary roads.   The objective is to determine the distribution of breeding birds in the county and to assess any year-to-year changes in their numbers.

MBBS 2008 IS NOW IN PROGRESS!

This will be the tenth consecutive year for Orange County,
the ninth for Chatham, and the seventh for Durham County.

Participants -- please contact your county coordinator (see below)
to confirm plans for your route(s) ...

... and as always please check the latest bulletins!

Check out our results for years past. . .

Orange County -- 1999     2000     2001     2002     2003     2004     2005     2006     2007     Compare!

Chatham County -- 2000     2001     2002     2003     2004     2005     2006     2007     Compare years!

Durham County -- 2002     2003     2004     2005     2006     2007     Compare years!

For more information, see . . .

OUR PROCEDURES (revised 10 May 2006)

including

descriptions and maps of our routes

a list of birds breeding in our area

and

FORMS FOR MBBS DATA

If you have questions, please contact Ginger Travis (Orange County),
Marsha Stephens (Chatham County), Patsy Bailey (Durham County), or Haven Wiley !

 

 

Latest bulletins!

MBBS 2008

Participants ... please contact your county coordinator or Haven Wiley.
with any questions you might have!

Remember we start our routes at 5:30, preferably on a Sunday morning
between May 20 and June 20 (or as soon as possible thereafter).
It's a good idea to display our signs saying "Bird Count".

There are Excel spreadsheets at the link above for submitting your numbers
(but if spreadsheets are inconvenient for you, send your results on paper to me or
to your country coordinator who can forward them to me).

Send any corrections or suggestions to Haven Wiley.