Aldo Leopold Nature Center: Backyard bird count

Great Backyard Bird Count at Aldo Leopold Nature Center

Learn more about Wisconsin’s winter bird residents and join tens of thousands of everyday bird watchers for the 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)! This national event, organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, is an opportunity for families, students, and people of all ages to engage in real citizen science. Participants will count birds and report their sightings online at www.birdcount.org. We will provide the binoculars and teach participants how!

Location: Aldo Leopold Nature Center’s Monona Campus, 300 Femrite Drive, Monona
Date/Time: Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Registration Deadline: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Fee: FREE
Information/Register: www.naturenet.com/alnc or 608-216-9371

Aldo Leopold Nature Center (ALNC) is a private, not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the conservation ethic of Aldo Leopold through environmental education and awareness. Founded in 1994, with sites in Monona and Black Earth, ALNC provides hands-on environmental programming for school children and their families, reaching more than 30,000 people annually. In addition, ALNC sponsors Nature Net: the Environmental Learning Network, which promotes environmental education for children by organizing collaborative networks of nature centers throughout Wisconsin (www.naturenet.com).