The Aussie Bird Count is a project of
BirdLife Australia. It is a
citizen science
Citizen science (CS) (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is scientific research conducted with participation from the public (who are sometimes re ...
project in which volunteers conduct
bird counts
There are many field methods available for conducting avian ecological research. They can be divided into three types: counts, nest monitoring, and capturing and marking.
Basic counts
Basic bird counts are a good way to estimate population siz ...
around Australia.
In the 2017 bird count, almost two million birds were counted.
In 2022, the project was renamed to the Aussie Bird Count to reflect the ability to count in any outdoor space.
See also
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Australian Bird Count The Australian Bird Count (ABC) was a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU). Following the first and successful Atlas of Australian Birds project, which led to the publication of a book on the distribution of Australian b ...
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BioBlitz
A BioBlitz, also written without capitals as bioblitz, is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive fi ...
("24-hour inventory")
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Breeding Bird Survey
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Christmas Bird Count
The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, performed annually in the early Northern-hemisphere winter by volunteer birdwatchers and administered by the National Audubon Society. The purpose is to provide pop ...
(CBC) (in the Western Hemisphere)
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Systematic Census of Australian Plants
The ''Systematic census of Australian plants, with chronologic, literary and geographic annotations'', more commonly known as the ''Systematic Census of Australian Plants'', also known by its standard botanic abbreviation ''Syst. Census Austral. ...
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Tucson Bird Count
The Tucson Bird Count (TBC) is a community-based program that monitors bird populations in and around the Tucson, Arizona, United States metropolitan area. With nearly 1000 sites monitored annually, the Tucson Bird Count is among the largest urb ...
(TBC) (in Arizona in the US)
References
Bird censuses
Ornithological equipment and methods
Ornithology in Australia
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