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ASNV Citizen Science Needs YOU!
As an important part of our citizen science work, we’re looking to establish some baseline bird abundance data for a pair of parks, specifically for Upton Hill Park in Arlington and Four Mile Run Park in Alexandria.
Photo: Camilla Cerea/Audubon
Jerry Touval
As an important part of our citizen science work, we’re looking to establish some baseline bird abundance data for a pair of parks, specifically for Upton Hill Park in Arlington and Four Mile Run Park in Alexandria. We’d like to hold a number of bird walks in those two parks this spring, but we need walk leaders. For Upton Hill, we’d like to enlist bird walk leaders for each weekend in May, and for Four Mile Run we’re looking to have a minimum of one walk per month for April, May and June (and more than one would be better!).
If you’re interested and available to lead any of these walks, we’ve set up a Google sign-up sheet that you can access here, or send a message to Jerry Touval.
Please consider helping out with this important citizen science work!
Bipartisan Bird Walks for Hill Staffers
Could birding help bridge the partisan divide in Congress?
Photo: Capitol Hill, from Winter 2022 Living Bird Magazine
Could birding help bridge the partisan divide in Congress?
A December 21, 2021 article in The Cornell Lab’s newsletter, “All About Birds,” describes the efforts of Tykee James, government affairs coordinator for National Audubon Society, who leads a monthly bird walk for Hill staffers. Read the story here.
Bird Walks
Winter is a great time to enjoy birding! Check out our bird walks page to join an upcoming walk.
Photo: Camilla Cerea
Winter has arrived! Join us for a bird walk now that the leaves are down. Check this page for upcoming walks.