Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society coordinates THREE regions for the annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count – Oneonta Region in Otsego County, Fort Plain Region in Montgomery County, and Delaware County Region. These counts take place in late December and early January each year.

*As of 2012, there is no longer any fee to participate in Christmas Bird Counts.

OTSEGO COUNTY

2022: Saturday, December 17 – Oneonta Christmas Bird Count (CBC):

This is our 54th year of participating in the national count. Everyone, novice or experienced, is welcome to join us on this fun day. Small groups in one or two cars count all the birds they find in their assigned area, within our designated 15-mile radius circle centered around Milford, for whatever hours they choose.

Each group has a leader who will have received appropriate materials beforehand. Alternatively, instead of joining a group, you can count birds at your own feeder off and on throughout the day if you are within our circle. If you are a new counter for either the group counts or the feeder counts, please contact Sandy Bright at brights@hartwick.edu or 607-287-4465.   People who have participated before will be contacted.

View Map for the Oneonta Christmas Bird Count

Other DOAS Christmas Bird Counts

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

2022: Saturday, December 31 – Fort Plain Christmas Bird Count (CBC):
All are welcome to participate regardless of birding experience. For information contact Charlie Scheim: 
at scheimc@hartwick.edu or by phone at 607-434-4880.

View Maps for the Fort Plain Christmas Bird Count.

DELAWARE COUNTY

2023 Sunday, January 1 – Delaware County Region Christmas Bird Count (CBC):

All are invited to participate. Contact Pam Peters if you can drive or  count:  ovenb1rdp@gmail.com or (607) 829-6545.

View Data from past Christmas Bird Counts

Find a Bird Count Near You at the Audubon Map

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. It is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period on one calendar day to count birds.

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society coordinates THREE regions for the annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count – Oneonta Region in Otsego County, Fort Plain Region in Montgomery County, and Delaware County Region. These counts take place in late December and early January each year.

*As of 2012, there is no longer any fee to participate in Christmas Bird Counts

MONTGOMERY COUNTY/Fort Plain Area

2022: Saturday, December 31 – Fort Plain Christmas Bird Count (CBC):
All are welcome to participate regardless of birding experience. For information contact Charlie Scheim: 
at scheimc@hartwick.edu or by phone at 607-434-4880.

View Maps for the Fort Plain Christmas Bird Count.

Other DOAS Christmas Bird Counts

OTSEGO COUNTY

2022: Saturday, December 17 – Oneonta Christmas Bird Count (CBC):

This is our 54th year of participating in the national count. Everyone, novice or experienced, is welcome to join us on this fun day. Small groups in one or two cars count all the birds they find in their assigned area, within our designated 15-mile radius circle centered around Milford, for whatever hours they choose.

Each group has a leader who will have received appropriate materials beforehand. Alternatively, instead of joining a group, you can count birds at your own feeder off and on throughout the day if you are within our circle. If you are a new counter for either the group counts or the feeder counts, please contact Sandy Bright at brights@hartwick.edu or 607-287-4465.   People who have participated before will be contacted.

View Map for the Oneonta Christmas Bird Count

DELAWARE COUNTY

2023 Sunday, January 1 – Delaware County Region Christmas Bird Count (CBC):

All are invited to participate. Contact Pam Peters if you can drive or  count:  ovenb1rdp@gmail.com or (607) 829-6545.

View Data from past Christmas Bird Counts

Find a Bird Count Near You at the Audubon Map

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. It is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period on one calendar day to count birds.

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society coordinates THREE regions for the annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count – Oneonta Region in Otsego County, Fort Plain Region in Montgomery County, and Delaware County Region. These counts take place in late December and early January each year.

*As of 2012, there is no longer any fee to participate in Christmas Bird Counts.

DELAWARE COUNTY

2023 Sunday, January 1 – Delaware County Region Christmas Bird Count (CBC):

All are invited to participate. Contact Pam Peters if you can drive or  count:  ovenb1rdp@gmail.com or (607) 829-6545.

Other DOAS Christmas Bird Counts

OTSEGO COUNTY

2022: Saturday, December 17 – Oneonta Christmas Bird Count (CBC):

This is our 54th year of participating in the national count. Everyone, novice or experienced, is welcome to join us on this fun day. Small groups in one or two cars count all the birds they find in their assigned area, within our designated 15-mile radius circle centered around Milford, for whatever hours they choose.

Each group has a leader who will have received appropriate materials beforehand. Alternatively, instead of joining a group, you can count birds at your own feeder off and on throughout the day if you are within our circle. If you are a new counter for either the group counts or the feeder counts, please contact Sandy Bright at brights@hartwick.edu or 607-287-4465.   People who have participated before will be contacted.

View Map for the Oneonta Christmas Bird Count

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

2022: Saturday, December 31 – Fort Plain Christmas Bird Count (CBC):
All are welcome to participate regardless of birding experience. For information contact Charlie Scheim: 
at scheimc@hartwick.edu or by phone at 607-434-4880.

View Maps for the Fort Plain Christmas Bird Count.

View Data from past Christmas Bird Counts

Find a Bird Count Near You at the Audubon Map

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. It is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period on one calendar day to count birds.

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Join DOAS on Friday, January 20, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom, when we proudly host Board Director, Landa Palmer. Landa will present “Puffin and Bird Adventure”, a compilation of photos and stories from her recent trip to Grimsey Island, Iceland.

Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ldyNS9c4TeGgWva65ZKQYA

Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society on Zoom on Friday, February 17 at 7:30pm for this special presentation with Archaeologist, Debra Corbett. This program is free to attend, but registration is required.

Unangan Aleut people of the Aleutian Islands relied on birds for food, clothing, and tools. Beyond these every day needs birds, especially seabirds, were sentient beings interacting with humans in meaningful ways, potent sources of power, and imbued with spiritual meanings. Debra Corbett will briefly introduce the Unangan Aleut and their homeland, show some ways birds were used in daily life, then explore some aspects of this relationship between birds and the Unangan people. Our heroes will be a small songbird, possibly Sparrow or Rosy Finch, Whiskered Auklet and Thunderbird (Eagle or Raven).

REGISTER at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ldyNS9c4TeGgWva65ZKQYA

About the Presenter

Debra Corbett began work as an archaeologist in 1980 after graduating from the University of Arizona in Tucson. In 1983 she moved to Alaska to work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act land claims. After getting an MA in archaeology at UAF in 1991 she went to work for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, largely because the agency manages the Aleutian Islands as part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. She eventually became the Regional Historic Preservation Officer (RHPO), responsible for cultural resources on all the wildlife refuges in Alaska. She retired in December 2013 and has been working as a heritage consultant through her company, Nanutset Heritage.
Her obsession with the Aleutian Islands began in High School when she read Hector Chevigny’s Russian America. His image of islands “greenly beautiful, with grass that grows so long it overhangs the cliffs into the surf,” electrified her.  Her first Alaska job with BIA took her to the Islands. The job was to investigate historic sites claimed by the newly created Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Native Corporations. BIA sent two crews to Adak Island in the Aleutians. Since she was passingly familiar with boats she was picked for one of the crews. They spent three months in a rat infested cabin, with an inflatable boat, in one of the most beautiful spots on earth. She was completely hooked.

In 1989 she went to graduate school at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, finishing a MA in 1991, and going to work for the Fish and Wildlife Service. During school her advisor gave her a phone number and said “This crazy bird biologist in Kansas wants to find an Aleutian Archaeologist. Call him!”. Her future was set. From 1991 to 2003 she worked with Dr. Douglas Causey, the aforementioned biologist, and Dr. Christine Lefevre. Along the way the crew experienced the best and the worst the Aleutians have to offer, shipwreck, injury, laughter, frustration, fear, transcendent joy, and unbelievable archaeology—all shared with amazing friends and a host of students and colleagues.