Lower Columbia Christmas Bioblitz 2016

For this trial run, we will use the same window of dates, from Dec 15 to Jan 5, used by the National Audubon Society to schedule Christmas Bird Counts. The differences being that NAS Christmas bird counts have a single official count day for quantitative censusing and a "count week" into which the count day is embedded for qualitative censusing of species missed on the count day and a rigidly defined circle, 15 miles in diameter, which normalizes the area from count to count across the nation. We'll be a bit more open with our blitz...

Our blitz is defined by an arbitrary boundary that corrals most of the lower Columbia and its primary Coast Range Watersheds. It also catches the Leadbetter Point, Columbia Estuary and Wahkiakum Christmas Count Circles, plus the western third of the Cowlitz-Columbia count. Any record within the region (be it animal or vegetable) posted to iNaturalist between Dec 15 and Jan 5 that also contains a photo or sound file will be automatically posted to this bioblitz page. menos ↑