The November edition of Birds & Bytes will take us on a deep dive into the longest still running citizen science projects in the world: the Christmas Bird Count!

The CBC dataset has been a critical tool to ornithologists to better understand how birds in the Americas are faring and directly informed landmark studies in recent years such as the 2014 “Audubon Birds and Climate Change” report the 2019 “Survival by Degrees” report launched on October 10th. This history and scale of volunteer data has also been instrumental in the acceptance of “Citizen” Science data sets by the scientific community overall.

Join Geoffrey LeBaron, Christmas Bird Count Director for National Audubon Society, as he guides us through the origins, evolution, uses, and conservation implications of the 120-year history of the CBC.

All are welcome to attend this free event but RSVP is required.

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About our speaker:
Geoffrey LeBaron is the Christmas Bird Count Director for the National Audubon Society, a position held since 1987.  As an integral member of the Audubon Science team, Geoff also works on the other Community Science projects including Climate Watch, Hummingbirds at Home, and the Great Backyard Bird Count, as well as ornithological and birding advisor on projects from the Conservation Science team. Other tasks at Audubon have included consultant for natural history accuracy for Audubon Productions and the Communications and Content teams for both the Audubon website and Audubon magazine; advisor for products under development by the Marketing team; leader for both leadership and staff birdathon fund-raisers; consultant for special events; occasional lecturer; and frequent Audubon media spokesperson on various subjects.