Date: 4/21/25 8:45 am From: David Suddjian <dsuddjian...> Subject: [cobirds] "Last call" to adopt a Colorado Breeding Bird Survey route
Hi CoBirders,
I posted here a couple of times earlier this spring about adopting a survey route for the North American Breeding Bird Survey <https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/about/> (BBS). Efforts to recruit birders for the "vacant" Colorado BBS routes have been very successful: *there are now only five Colorado BBS routes without an assigned observer!* Thanks to the many new and veteran BBS volunteer observersThis is a "last call" for this season to see if anyone else is interested in adopting one of the five available routes, which are all located on the eastern prairie: Route # Route Name County 17020 Boyero Lincoln 17044 Bethune Kit Carson 17307 Julesburg Sedgwick, Logan 17314 Burlington Kit Carson, Yuma 17321 Sheridan Lake Kiowa, Prowers Information on each can be found here Vacant BBS Routes <https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/RouteMap/Map.cfm>. Packets with survey materials are being mailed to observers before the end of this month. Now is the time if anyone else is interested in making the commitment. *Please contact me directly if you want to adopt a route or have questions.*
Here is some more info: The North American Breeding Bird Survey is our longest running continent-wide survey of breeding birds. Each year during the height of the avian breeding season (late May to early July), skilled birders collect bird population data along roadside BBS survey routes. Each survey route is 24.5 miles long with 50 stops situated 0.5-mile apart. At each stop, a 3-minute point count is conducted, and every bird seen or heard within a 0.25-mile radius is recorded. Routes are surveyed once each season, following the same roads and making the same stops each year.
David Suddjian Littleton CO Colorado BBS state coordinator
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