POSTED: 03/10/18, 4:00 AM PST | UPDATED:
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Santa Cruz Bird ATlas
What: Training for volunteer
birders interested in helping create a Santa Cruz County bird atlas.
When: 8 a.m. Saturday, Sunday and
April 6.
Where: Sorrento Oaks Senior Park
clubhouse, 800 Brommer St., Santa Cruz, 95062
SANTA CRUZ >> Soon, an army
of birders will fan out throughout Santa Cruz County with their binoculars and
boots, to count how many birds are breeding in the area.
Organized by the Santa Cruz Bird
Club, the goal is, for the next seven years, to map and analyze the
distribution and abundance of county’s breeding bird population.
The results will be published in
The Santa Cruz County Breeding Bird Atlas II in 2023 and will provide a
comparison to a similar study completed in 1993. California and much of the
nation’s counties typically produce a breeding bird atlas every 25 to 30 years.
“It’s a snapshot of the nature
and health of the birds that breed here,” said Alex Rinkert, director of the
project and a UC Santa Cruz trained ecology and evolutionary biologist. “The
area has a remarkable amount and variety of breeding birds.”
