Experienced birders and untrained volunteers converged on El Bosque de la Primavera for the first Christmas Bird Census taken in this large forest on the western outskirts of Guadalajara.
U.S. ornithologist Frank Chapman started the custom of counting birds at Christmas time in 1900. The idea caught on among birders and now the Christmas Bird Count is carried out in over 1,800 places across Canada, the United States and Latin America. The results have gone into a huge database, which the public can access on the Audubon Society website, www.audubon.org/bird/cbc.
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