Community Science
Join area birdwatchers in contributing to our scientific understanding of birds in our area through one of our many community science programs.
Neighborhood Bird Project
The Neighborhood Bird Project monitors species diversity in urban wildlife habitats of King County through the work of community scientists, and empowering the community to become advocates for wildlife habitat.
Seattle Bird Collision Monitoring
The Seattle Bird Collision Monitoring Project is a community science initiative that aims to better understand and prevent bird window collisions in the Seattle Area. Learn more about the project, how it works, and how to participate.
Climate Watch
Climate Watch is a community science program explores how North American birds are responding to climate change.
Christmas Bird Count
Established in 1900, the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is the longest running community science survey in North America. Birds Connect Seattle has coordinated the Seattle CBC for over 90 years! Approximately 250 volunteers survey the count circle (15 miles in diameter) centered in downtown Seattle, to identify and count anything with feathers and a pulse.
DBird.org
dBird is an online tool that helps us track human-related causes of bird mortality and injury. Learn more about using dBird to report dead or injured birds.
30,000 Dead Birds and Counting
After seven seasons of monitoring buildings for bird-window collisions, Birds Connect Seattle has arrived at an early conservative estimate of local bird mortality.
Young Birders at Wenas
Young Birders birding together at the annual Wenas Audubon CampOut.
The Collision Buffet: How Bird-window Collisions Supplement the Diets of Urban Scavengers | EarthCare Northwest
Bird fatalities, while tragic, play an important and unnoticed role in our urban food chain, especially for scavengers like crows, gulls, and rats. Birds Connect Seattle is studying carcass persistence, or how long a dead bird remains before it is carried away by scavengers, as part of the Seattle Bird Collision Monitoring Project.