The 12th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count -- sponsored by National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- is slated for February 13-16, 2009. Participants in the 2008 count submitted more than 85,000 checklists and identified 635 species. With your help, organizers are hoping to break those records this year, so give them a hand by adding binoculars to your Xmas list and marking your calendars now!
