On your marks. Get set. Bird watch. 🐦🐦🐦
A heated competition is setting both sides of the Bay aflutter as the world's longest running citizen science project makes its annual return. Most people have no idea it's happening.
Within relevant circles, events like these are sort of like a birding triathlon, wrote Lia Keener and Mukta Patil in Bay Nature. Hundreds of birders in the Bay Area sign up for the regional counts every year, during which they search high and low for birds from dawn until dusk. It's becoming more popular as well. Last year, the Oakland count had the most participants out of any other Christmas Bird Count in the world.
It's about time Richmond made the ranks, said Ryan Nakano, communications associate at the Golden Gate Audubon Society. Having a Richmond count marks a major turning point in the local birding culture, one that better reflects the community of the Bay Area.
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