Date: 4/23/25 1:56 pm From: \Hurlbert, Allen Hartley\ (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: surveyors needed for NC Mini Breeding Bird Survey
Hello all,
We are looking for volunteers interested in helping conduct roadside NC Mini Breeding Bird Survey<minibbs.us>s in Orange, Durham, and Chatham counties (NC) this year. The MiniBBS was started in 1999 by Emeritus Professor Haven Wiley, and provides an important long-term standardized monitoring dataset for evaluating changes in bird populations in these counties.
To participate, you need to be comfortable identifying our common breeding birds by sight and sound, and are ideally willing to take on this one-morning-per-year effort (typically 5:30 - 7:30 am sometime between May 15 and June 30) for at least a few years. Continuity in observers greatly increases the quality of the data, and we are lucky to have some of the same observers for 25+ years!
If you are interested in taking on a route this year, or riding along with a current observer with the intention of fully taking over in 2026 please email me! Riding along with someone before they retire from the MBBS is a great way to transition a route to a new observer and to learn some of the stop landmarks and the avian gems to keep an ear out for along the way.
We have open routes in both Orange and Durham county.
