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    For Birds’ Sake

    Nov 19, 2018 4 minutes
    BY VANESSA FARNSWORTH

    If you think that citizen science is for the birds, you’re not far off.

    The National Audubon Society’s 2018–19 Christmas Bird Count marks the 119th year that Canadians can participate in what has become North America’s longest-running citizen science project. Not bad for an event that started back in 1900 in response to a traditional Christmas “side hunt,” during which hunters would compete to see who could shoot the most birds. American ornithologist Frank Chapman thought that counting birds would be a far better way to spend the day. Many birders on both sides of the border agreed.

    “There were 25 Christmas Bird Counts held that first year and one of

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