Latest update: 14 July 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 COMPLETE!
All routes and summaries are now posted (see links below)!

Last year the numbers of many birds hit all-time lows, but this year we saw a spectacular recovery.   Many species reached all-time highs!   The pattern is approximately the same in all three counties, even for individual species of birds.   For more details, click the links for "compare years" below.

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

... as always please check the latest bulletins!

Results for 2008 ...

Orange County
Chatham County
Durham County

Check out our results for years past. . .

Orange County -- 1999   2000   2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007   2008   Compare years!

Chatham County -- 2000   2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007   2008   Compare years!

Durham County -- 2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007   2008   Compare years!

Special thanks to all of our participants for 2008! -- all 38 of them!

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

MBBS 2008 is complete!

Send any corrections or suggestions to Haven Wiley.

At our end-of-season wrap up on July 13, those present celebrated our first
ten years of Mini Breeding-Bird Surveys and voted unanimously to try for
another ten years! ... So stay tuned in May and June 2009!