This next Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will take place Saturday, December 17, 2022. The count is free, and all ages and ability levels are welcome. To sign up for the count, please return to this page after November 1, 2022, when you will find a link to the sign-up form.
I’m looking forward to a great count!
— John Callender, Carpinteria CBC compiler
Mailing List
If you want to receive regular updates about the count you can subscribe to the count’s Google group (like a mailing list) here: Carpinteria CBC Participants (Google group). In the meantime, you can check this page for updates as we get closer to count day.
Videos
In preparation for the 2020 count (which unfortunately was cancelled due to COVID-19) we had a couple of Zoom meetings to talk about count procedures and some of the different locations in our count circle. Here are the video archives of those meetings for anyone who wants to review them.
The meeting for November 19, 2020 mostly covered various locations in our count circle, including what birds are found there and how to bird them:
The meeting for December 3, 2020, covered how to submit your data for the Carpinteria CBC:
For the 2021 CBC we held a “tune-up” meeting to discuss count procedures. You can view the archive of that meeting here:
Useful links and downloadable forms:
- Participant instructions
- Shared tally spreadsheet – for real-time updates in the field
- 2021 Carpinteria CBC Scouting – eBird trip report
- 2021 Carpinteria CBC – eBird trip report
- Count circle map – the boundaries of our count circle
- eBird: Main eBird web site, eBird data entry app, a good how-to video on using eBird for data entry, eBird Essentials course
Paper-based forms:
Previous Carpinteria CBCs:
- Announcement of the 2020 count cancellation and recap of the 2019 count
- Recap of the 2018 count
- Species data for the history of the count
Questions? Contact John Callender, jbc@jbcsystems.com, or call 805-455-0053.