DECEMBER 14, 2022 - JANUARY 5, 2023
FRIDAY,
December 16, 2022
California City CBC, Kern County: Compiler
Alexia Svejda: Phone (661) 810-6268 - year began 2015
SATURDAY,
December 17, 2022
Bakersfield
CBC, Kern County: Compiler:
John Wilson - year began 1949 held in 1950 resumed in 1973
Butterbredt
CBC, Kern County: Compiler:
Charles Bragg,
Phone: (310) 454-9662 - year began 1977
Lancaster
CBC, Los Angeles/Kern Counties: Compiler:
Mary & Nick Freeman,
Phone: (818) 247-6172 - year began 1980
SUNDAY,
December 18, 2022
China
Lake CBC, Kern & San Bernardino Counties: Compiler:
Peter Woodman, Phone:
(760) 861-3961 - year began 1957
WEDNESDAY,
December 21, 2022
Tejon Ranch, Kern
& Los Angeles Counties: Compiler:
Jeron Cramer and
Steve Justus - year began 2008
THURSDAY,
December 22, 2022
Tehachapi CBC, Kern County: Compiler:
Larry
Parmeter, Phone: (559) 288-3456
-
year began 1992
FRIDAY,
December 30, 2022
Bear Valley
Springs CBC, Kern County: Compiler: Compiler:
Alex Coffey; Phone: 203-980-5547 - resurrected 2019, held 1995-2014
SATURDAY,
December 31, 2022
Carrizo Plain CBC, Kern & San Luis Obispo Counties:
Compiler:
Kathanne Lynch
- year began 1971
South
Fork Valley CBC, Kern & Tulare Counties: Compiler
Denise LaBerteaux, Phone: (760) 378-4278 - year began 1992
SUNDAY,
January 1, 2023
Kern River Valley CBC, Kern County:
Compiler:
Ali Sheehey - year
began 1978
Red Rock
Canyon CBC, Kern County:
Alexia
Svejda - held 1998 - 2004 restarted
2014
TBD
Participants are typically assigned to teams based on their bird
identification skill level and endurance. The count results are
tabulated by the National Audubon and Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Help is needed on many of these counts, so find one that interests
you and contact the compiler for more information.
Too cold to
come out on a December or January day, compilers need help from
landowners for permission to access to your property, birders will
not trespass. How about keeping a list of birds that you see in your
yard on that day (be a “feeder watcher”), or you can join a team to
cover a territory near your home. (New birders are paired with
veterans, so you don’t have to be an expert.)
Beginners
to experts are welcome, maybe you know the area that a visiting
birder doesn't. If you’ve ever heard yourself say, “Maybe it’d be
fun to learn birds,” here’s a great opportunity. Call the contacts
listed above to participate at any level.
Discontinued Kern County Counts
Buena Vista
- held 1989 through 2012
Granite-
Woody - year began 1971 held through 1996
Mount Pinos
- held 1967-68
Oildale -
Poso - held 1972
Taft-Maricopa - held 1969 through 1972
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