Northern Delaware County Christmas Bird Count 2024
Event Details
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
2025: Sunday, January 5 – Delaware County Region Christmas Bird Count (CBC):
The Delaware County CBC (NYDE) was established in 2017 following a test run in 2016. Our 15 mile circle is centered at Bear Spring Mountain in Walton and extends to Hamden, Downsville and Shinhopple. The territory is quite remote and includes steep hollows, forests, river valleys, two villages and sections of the Pepacton and Cannonsville Reservoirs.
All are welcomed to participate by joining a team of counters or reporting from a backyard feeder, if it is within the count circle. We conduct our count the first weekend in January. Contact Pam Peters if you are interested in participating or learning more: ovenb1rdp@gmail.com or (607) 829-6545.
Delaware County Data 2016 to 2023
Other DOAS Christmas Bird Counts
OTSEGO COUNTY
2024: Saturday, December 14 – Oneonta Christmas Bird Count (CBC):
We have been participating in the national count for over 50 years!. 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
Oneonta Region Data – Compiled – 1969 to 2023
(This is a large data file shared online and may take a minute or so to display at the link.)
Oneonta Region Data – 2022
(Thank you Sandy Bright!)
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
2024: Saturday, December 28 – Fort Plain Christmas Bird Count (CBC):
All are welcome to participate regardless of birding experience. For information contact Contact Charlie Scheim at scheimc@hartwick.edu or by phone 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.
