Every year since 1900 the National Audubon Society has conducted an annual Christmas Bird Count. The first Calaveras Christmas Bird Count was December 29, 1990. That count was the 91st count for the National Audubon Society and Calaveras was one of 1600 counts and the 29 participants joined 45,000 other participants throughout North American and Central and South American. Future bird counts will be from December 14- January 5. Calaveras counts are usually the last Saturday of this range. Below are some links for information relating to this count.
History
of Christmas Birds Counts in the US.
History
of the Calaveras Christmas Bird Count.
Copy of the original Application for a Bird Count in Calaveras.
Summary of Past Calaveras Christmas Bird Counts.
Names of
People who have Participated once or more in the CLV
CBC.
Following are the Past
Totals seen in each region of the Calaveras Christmas Bird Counts
along with a brief description of the region.
|
REGION
AND DESCRIPTIVE NAME |
date of last update |
|
Region 1 Calaveras
Big Trees State Park |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 2 Blue Lake
Springs |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 3 Love
Creek Road/Fly in Acres |
3/1/03 |
|
Regions 2 and 3
added together |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 4 Forest
Meadows |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 5 Pennsylvania
Gulch |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 6 Camp Nine
Road/Forebay |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 7 White
Pines/Meadowmont |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 8 Hathaway
Pines/Hanford Hills |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 9 Murphys |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 10 Mt.Ranch/Emery Reservoir |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 11 Blue
Mountain |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 12 Pine
Ridge |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 13
Armstrong/Sheep Ranch |
3/1/03 |
|
Region 14 Indian
Creek/Mineral Mountain |
3/1/03 |
|
|
|
This information was written
by Penelope Bowen formerly the Calaveras County Coordinator
and the original compiler for the CBC.
Map of the CLV CBC
Note - this map is not very clear on the web but it will show the regions
and somewhat explain the rational for the placement of the count circle.
We wanted to include Calaveras Big Trees State Park and we didn't want
too much area south of the Stanislaus River. We also had to be at least five
miles from any existing counts.
For a complete list of birds
seen in Calaveras County go to
the CLV County
Seasonal List
