Tens of thousands of birders all over North and Central America are participating right now in the Christmas Bird Count.

This annual survey in the last weeks of December and first week of January documents what birds are where and how many of them there are.

The count’s been running for over one hundred years.

It’s given scientists loads of data about how birds’ ranges and populations are changing.

Reporting for EarthFix, Eilís [(eye-LEASH)] O’Neill headed out with some birders north of Everett, Washington…

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