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2006 America's Birdiest City/County Competition

The 6th annual America's Birdiest City and Birdiest County contests will be conducted once again in April and May of 2006.

The purpose of the America's Birdiest City/County contest is to see which cities and counties in the various categories can document the highest count of bird species during a selected 72-hour period within its city (or county) limits during the months of April or May.

Cities and counties come in greatly different sizes and some parts of the country (such as coastlines) have inherently more bird species than others, so there are nine categories in the competition. They, and the 2005 winners and their categories are:

• Large Coastal City, Corpus Christi, TX
• Large Inland City , Chicago, IL
• Small Coastal City, Dauphin Island, AL
• Small Inland City , Duluth, MN
• Inland Eastern County, St. Louis County, MN
• Inland Western County, Kern County, CA
• Coastal Gulf Coast County, Nueces County, TX
• Coastal Atlantic County, Kings County, NY
• Coastal Pacific County, Monterey and San Diego, CA

Cities and counties of all sizes are invited to join the competition in 2006.

The key to success is in having many birders in the field. There's no limit on numbers of participants, and you pick your own optimum dates.

To participate, just send an e-mail to the address below, and indicate whether you wish to enter one of the city contests, one of the county contests, or both. You'll receive the complete rules of the competition by return e-mail.

It's fine to decide to participate at the last minute since there's no sign-up deadline. However, you should enter early enough to get organized and to send an email requesting a copy of the competition rules.

For more information, contact: Phil Pryde, San Diego Audubon Society, ABC/C coordinator by email at PhilPinSD@cox.net