Let's Celebrate the Christmas Bird Count
What's your biggest find of the day? This CBC Live tool lets you show everyone what it's like to participate in your local CBC.
Audubon invites you to celebrate the Christmas Bird Count™ with us.
You can help us document the experience by taking photos during your CBC—the birds you see, the people you meet, the places you explore, the post-count meals you share—and uploading them to this interactive map. We hope thousands of people across the hemisphere will do the same during the count period, giving us a snapshot of how people experience the CBC, from Ecuador to the Arctic, and from Guam to Bermuda.
Want to see what other people are doing on their Christmas Bird Counts? Click on the dots on the map below to see photos uploaded by other CBC participants. Click and drag to pivot the globe.
How to submit...
To upload your photos, we'll need four things:
1) Scroll down to the map below. Pick your location, either by centering the map and repositioning the marker over your location, or by typing in your location in the search bar (you can do both).
2) Pick a photo and upload it! Please be as specific as possible when setting your location: ideally, you can let your phone's location services set your position, use latitude and longitude, or click on the map to move the marker as close to possible where you took your photo. Only upload one photo per lat/long; other photos (including those of other users) may be concealed if your location tag isn't very precise.
3) Make sure to title your photo. This can be the official name of your Christmas Bird Count, or the name of the area in which it is happening.
4) Add a short caption to the photo so we know what we’re looking at and where you’re counting.
5) Refresh the page, and look for your submission on the globe.
And that’s it! Add as many photos as you like and let everyone know what happened on your Christmas Bird Count.
Thank you for participating in the Christmas Bird Count! The data Audubon gathers from the CBC has been used in hundreds of scientific studies, including those that tell us how birds will fare because of climate change. To see how the birds that you saw on your CBC or see in your backyard will respond to climate change, visit the Survival By Degrees climate change visualizer and enter your zipcode.
Photo by Camilla Cerea/Audubon
CBC Live StoryMap and platform by Elizabeth Todd & Ryan Hobbs