Backyard Bird Count Event Saturday

Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park starts off our 2018 events February 17 with a walk for the Great Backyard Bird Count. Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.

Now, more than 160,000 people of all ages and walks of life worldwide join the four-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds. This is the second year Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park has participate...