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CANCELED: Big Atlas Weekend Awards Ceremony
2024 Big Atlas Weekend Ceremony has been canceled.
2024 Big Atlas Weekend Ceremony has been canceled.
Join this friendly competition between Pennsylvania atlasers and among six other Atlas projects to collect data on breeding birds!
Save the date for the Big Atlas Weekend, a friendly competition between Atlases!
Happy May, birders! Here are a few updates to check out on the website.
Join us over Zoom for Atlas Town Hall events!
It’s April – the start of the peak breeding season in Pennsylvania! If you’ve been holding off on atlasing, now’s the time to get outside with your binoculars to get familiar with the areas you’ll be atlasing in and to check off early spring breeders.
Red Crossbill irruption alert! We need your help to document this rare Pennsylvania breeder.
A little over a month into the year, the very early breeders are still active and breeding season is drawing near for a few other species, but overall it remains a relatively quiet time for Atlasing. Here’s what you can focus on in February.
January Atlasing Spotlight January 1, 2024, marked the beginning of the Third Pennsylvania Bird Atlas. A handful of species are breeding, and therefore countable for the Atlas, in mid-January: Great Horned Owl, Rock Pigeon, Red Crossbill, and Barred Owl are all in ‘Breeding Only’ dates on the Breeding Guidelines Chart (otherwise known as ‘safe dates’), […]
The PA Bird Atlas is hiring four point count technicians and one point count crew leader for spring/summer 2024. We are looking for candidates who are skilled in identifying Pennsylvania birds, are comfortable working independently and traveling around the state, and are really excited about birds and birding!