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Great Backyard Bird Count 2024 in Arkansas
Get outside and bird the Natural State Friday, February 16th – Monday, February 19th as part of this global annual tradition.
New eBird Reviewers for Arkansas
As we bid farewell to our beloved Dan Scheiman, it's time to say hello to some new eBird Reviewers: Taylor Long, Ragan Sutterfield, and Ariana Remmel, join Gary Graves in fostering good data quality in our state.
Arkansas Christmas Bird Counts 2023
This year’s Audubon Christmas Bird Counts will be held around the Americas from December 14th, 2023 through January 5th, 2024. Counts have been done for 124 years – the oldest citizen science bird database in the hemisphere.
Help Needed with the New Arkansas Birding Hotspot Website
This is a new opportunity to contribute to our birding community. Introducing the Arkansas Birding Hotspots website https://birdinghotspots.org/us/arkansas This platform allows birders to submit photos of a hotspot or to offer tips for birding, birds of interest, […]or notable trails.
Counting Birds at your Feeder for your eBird Yard List
Keeping a “yard list” in eBird is a wonderful way to document all the different species of birds, and numbers of those species, that you see at your bird feeders. And, thanks to our unusually cold November, Arkansans are seeing lots of birds at their backyard feeders. A couple years ago eBird published the […]
Will Leaving My Hummingbird Feeder Up Stop Them From Migrating?
By late September, ruby-throated hummingbirds have been migrating through Arkansas for more than 2 months and birders may find there are fewer and fewer birds at their feeders. Scientists determined that hummingbird migration is initiated based on day length so the presence of sugar water feeders will not stop hummers from flying south to winter […]
