South Lake Tahoe Christmas Bird Count this Friday

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The annual South Lake Tahoe Christmas Bird Count is scheduled for this Friday, December 15.

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) has been held worldwide every year, and in Lake Tahoe for almost 20 years. It is the largest and oldest citizen science project in the world. Each year, from December 14 through January 5, tens of thousands of volunteers head out into the winter to count birds for a day. This tradition goes back to 1900, and in the intervening years, these birders have built a database of bird populations that is unmatched by any other wildlife census.

The co-founder of the Tahoe Institute of Natural Sciences (TINS), Will Richardson, has coordinated the South Lake Tahoe CBC since 2004.

The count area is restricted to a 7.5-mile radius circle centered on the mouth of the Upper Truckee River in South Lake Tahoe.

For more information, and to sign up to participate as either an in-the-field counter or a feeder-watcher, please click through to the TINS CBC page: https://www.tinsweb.org/christmas-bird-count.