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Great Backyard Bird Count 2024

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Brown, white, and black sparrow with brown streaks on a white breast pauses at it forages on the green grass. The bird is looking forward, blue sky and tree branches in the blurry background.

You’re invited!

Join me and other folks this weekend for the 27th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC).

People come together for four days for a global bird count from February 16, 2024 to February 19, 2024 to watch and count as many birds as they can and report them online.

Which you can do in your own backyard or neighborhood.

Or nearby park, forest, or wetland.

Or public school, college campus, downtown area—any public space where birds can be seen or heard.

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Photo of the Week: Least Bittern

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A small black, brown, and white heron hunches over wet rocks along the shoreline as it hunts for fish. The bird has long yellow-green legs and bright yellow eye. In the background is the clear blue water of Lake Erie.

An unexpected find for this late in the year, the Least Bittern continues to delight southeast Michigan birders as it hunts for food along the Lake Erie shoreline.

I’ve seen Least Bitterns before, a small black and brown heron with long yellow legs and toes and what looks like white racing stripes on its body.

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