Tomorrow, Saturday May 9th, Is World Migratory Bird Day and the Cornell Global Big Day
It’s time again for the annual spring Big Day to celebrate migratory birds. There will be events in Calgary on both Saturday May 9th and Sunday May 10th at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. On Saturday there is a guided birding tour led by John McFaul of Nature Calgary. See this page to register. On Sunday there is a free family-friendly all-ages event from 1 to 4 pm. There will be guided walks, informative displays, games, and shows for elementary-aged children. See here for more information.
Saturday is also the annual spring Global Big Day celebrated by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (click the link for more information). Anyone can particpate anywhere in the world by submitting birding checklists to eBird. Last year, over 7,900 bird species were reported by over 1.7 million observers. So get out if you can, and submit as many checklists as you like, to help record the state of the birds in the Calgary area. And you can watch the results come in on this Global Big Day page. As of noon Friday in Calgary, results are already begining to come in from the far east where it is early Saturday morning.
