Christmas Bird Count

[Winger and June West]

My Reader’s Digest arrived today and at the bottom of page 36, it says:

 

“A New Kind of Birding

 

During the 19th century, the Christmas “Side Hunt” was a shooting competition—whoever shot the most birds won.  Then in 1900, an ornithologist named Frank M. Chapman had an idea,  Instead of hunting birds, why not count them?  The Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Census continues today.”

 

Winger West

Millersville, MD