2024 Christmas Bird Count Follow-up Interview
With 2024 being the 125th anniversary of the Christmas Bird Count, Science Friday did an interview in early January titled “What Scientists Have Learned from 125 Years of Bird Counts.”
2024 Christmas Bird Count Results
On December 28th, Dubuque Audubon members and volunteers participated in the annual Christmas Bird Count. Unseasonably, high temperatures were both a blessing and a curse, as an iceless river lead to lower than normal numbers for waterfowl.
2023 Christmas Bird Count Results
On 12/30/23, we had a total of 23 participants who counted 71 species and 23,779 total birds! We added an additional 5 species seen during count week, for a total of 76 species. (Count week includes the 3 days before and 3 days after the count day, for a total of 7 days.)