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Acoustic Bat Monitoring in Alaska

You can help us monitor Southeast Alaska's bat populations by driving an established survey route (transect) with a bat detector and an ultrasonic microphone mounted on the roof of your car.

Christmas Bird Count: Orilla Verde

The Audubon Christmas Bird Count is the oldest citizen-based bird conservation effort in the Western Hemisphere. Each year, between December 14 and January 5, more than 55,000 volunteers count more than 60 million birds.

Owl

Christmas Bird Count: Fajardo area

The Audubon Christmas Bird Count is the oldest citizen-based bird conservation effort in the Western Hemisphere. Each year, between December 14 and January 5, more than 55,000 volunteers count more than 60 million birds.

People watch birds with binoculars

Greater Atlanta Pollinator Partnership (GAPP)

Populations of pollinators like birds, bats, bees, and butterflies are declining, especially in and around cities.

Citizen science picture

Kaibab National Forest 2017 Citizen Science Project

This projects asks you to document as many flora and fauna as possible during the 2017 calendar year.

hand holding a phone with the iNaturalist app

Cascades Butterfly Project

Butterflies are sensitive indicators of changing environmental conditions because temperature influences the timing of an individual's life cycle and the geographic distribution of a species. The Cascade Butterfly Project has volunteers monitor the baseline butterfly

Butterfly group with nets
https://www.fs.usda.gov/working-with-us/citizen-science/projects