Inside CBC

Noah Kahn of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service looks to the CBC data from the 2011-2012 season and finds that federal refuges play an important role as shown through the CBC program.

Beth Peluso of Audubon Alaska interviews Rick Kaiser about his experience on the Prudhoe Bay CBC this year.

Q&A with Bob Trotter, the compiler for the Shemya Island Christmas Bird Count in Alaska's Aleutian Island chain

25 bird counts were held on December 25th, 1900 marking the inaugural year of the CBC. Of these counts only 1 took place in the southern United States and a single volunteer, Mrs. L. G. Baldwin, counted birds and reported the results.

Two sisters, aged 5 and 2, count birds in Georgia on Christmas Day 1916

Audubon's David Ringer and Melanie Driscoll revisit Grand Isle, Louisiana site of horrors during the BP oil disaster, for a more hopeful mission:  the Christmas Bird Count.

Teenaged birdwatcher Brendan Fogarty shares tales from the 110th Bird Count in Northern Nassau County

Paul Hess shares tales from Arctic CBCs

Sebastian Patti’s CBC adventures in Kansas and Oklahoma

The Christmas Bird Count doesn’t just happen in the United States. Amanda Acosta, Executive Director of Belize Audubon, sent us a report from the field.

Kelly McKay goes for a CBC record across the midwest in 2002

Mission Accomplished: Kelly McKay completes 23 counts across the midwest in 23 days during the 2003 CBC