{"id":676,"date":"2011-10-26T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/?p=676"},"modified":"2013-11-04T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:07:15","slug":"birdwatching-a-park-bird-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/2011\/10\/26\/birdwatching-a-park-bird-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdwatching: A Park Bird List!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Green Heron<\/p><\/div>\n

Are you an experienced birdwatcher? New to birdwatching? Either way, Glen Providence Park<\/strong> is a great place to enjoy the hobby… George and Eleanor Butler did donate the park in 1935 as a Bird Sanctuary and Arboretum<\/strong>, after all!<\/p>\n

From the park’s beginning, its visitors have delighted in bird watching. We found lists of birds seen in the park in 1936<\/a> and 1944<\/a>, with newspaper articles recounting how nature clubs, school classes, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, families and ornithologists<\/strong> visited the park to watch its birds and wildlife. And we have even found records from birdwatchers in 1889 and 1905, when the park was called Scroggie Valley<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Pileated Woodpecker<\/p><\/div>\n

Introducing…<\/h2>\n

the Glen Providence Park Bird List!<\/h2>\n

We entered this historical data on eBird.org<\/a>, <\/strong>a joint project of\u00a0The Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0Audubon<\/a>.\u00a0We added our own observations, which, combined with those entered by another birder, created a Glen Providence Park Bird List<\/a>–<\/strong>\u00a0a database of birds in the park\u00a0covering over 100 years!<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of today, there are 57 species documented, <\/strong>and we are just getting started.\u00a0 As the list is maintained, it will be a seasonal reference for what species to expect<\/strong> in the park- you can view the list by year, month or season!<\/p>\n

How many different birds might we see?\u00a0 There are 324 bird species<\/strong> on the Delaware County Bird Checklist<\/a>, on the helpful Birding Club of Delaware County<\/a> website!<\/p>\n

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Great Blue Heron<\/p><\/div>\n

Help us out!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you have records of birds you have spotted in the park in past years?\u00a0 Add them to eBird<\/a>! \u00a0You can create an account and enter your past and ongoing sightings (those that you can positively identify). It’s a way to contribute to science and conservation as a citizen scientist<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t want to join e-Bird?<\/strong> We can help enter your data- just email us at friendsoftheglenATgmail.com. Are your parents or grandparents birders?<\/strong> Ask if they have bird journals with sightings in Glen Providence Park! It would be amazing to have even more entries in our archival sightings.<\/p>\n

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Check the Glen Providence Park Bird List<\/a> periodically to see how we are doing!<\/p>\n

Enjoy birdwatching in the park!<\/em><\/p>\n


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