1. Estimating Bird Populations

2. Birds Birds are awesome! Counting birds is easy: See one, count it
Hear one, count it
Taste one, count it

3. Estimating Bird Populations
Important to ecologists & citizen scientists:

4. Common Sampling Methods

5. Line transect
collect data while walking the transect line

6. Point Count
collect data at specific stationary positions

7. Oswego East

8. Oswego East

9. Likely Bird #1 Red-winged Blackbird:
Males are establishing territories right now
Probably in cattails
Will attack you!

10. Likely Bird #2 European Starling: Introduced from Europe
Shouldn’t be here
Probably on top of the school

11. Likely Bird(s) #3/4
Mallard and Canada Goose
Aquatic!
Poop on ground

12. Likely Bird #5 Killdeer Shorebird that inhabits wet fields
Will pretend to have a broken wing
Loud “killdeer” call

13. Likely Bird #6 Song Sparrow Abundant bird but difficult to see
In any habitat