Tom Robben
COA Connecticut Ornithological Association
robben99@gmail.com
This is a working DRAFT, under construction...
This presentation begins at 3hours 41 minutes on the video recording: COA's Birds and the Environment Science Conference - Online - YouTube
Patrick Comins and I decided to divide our single-segment joint talk into two brief talks, starting with the history and origins of Summer Bird Counts, and what led up to them...
In the 1960s, after Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", many bird observers and ornithologists were looking for better ways to track and measure long-term changes in bird populations, especially at their breeding locations. Several long-term methods were developed to address that, including Chandler Robbins "Breeding Bird Surveys" which began in 1966 (which Andrew Dasinger talked about today), and the Summer Bird Counts which began in June 1972 at Captree, Long Island, NY (it used the same 15-mile circle as the Captree christmas bird count, which had been running since 1962, with many of the same people).
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