Citizen Science

 

What a great way to gather data.  Put out the word and the population goes and gets it for you.  So far, 72,000 bird lists posted.  571 species.  7.9 million birds counted.  Checklists for the four-day event are still coming in.

 

http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/

 

Texas leads the species list with 322.

 

U.S. cities reporting the most species: Tivoli, Rockport, Corpus Christi, and Kingsville, in that order, all in Texas,