National Garden Bird Monitoring

The 2011 National Garden Bird Survey is coming up soon. We encourage everyone to join in and add to the information collected. The dates are 25 June to 3 July. 

You are invited to watch birds in your garden for one hour sometime between those dates, and record the highest number of each species you see or hear at any one time during the hour. You don’t have to watch your whole garden, just part of the garden will do. You can even do the survey from the luxury of your kitchen or living room (some people have even done it from their bedroom), looking out the window at the garden. Full survey instructions, a bird identification poster, and downloadable survey form will be available on this website soon. There will also be an online data entry form available which you are encouraged to use to help reduce the number of volunteers needed to enter data sent in by post. By participating in the survey you will help build up a picture of how both native and introduced birds are faring in our gardens over the years. Let’s see if we can make this year’s survey even more successful than last year’s record breaking one.

http://gardenbirdsurvey.landcareresearch.co.nz/GardenBirdSurvey.aspx