Photo by Kenny Walters

This great blue heron was captured by Kenny Walters at East Lake Park in Birmingham, Alabama.

As of this morning, Feb. 26, participants had counted more than 10.5 million birds in the Great Backyard Birdcount and recorded 621 species on 75,699 checklists, far surpassing the previous record of 61,049 checklists, according to today’s press release from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.

If you counted birds for the Great Backyard Birdcount during the Presidents’ Day weekend and haven’t turned your results in yet, the final day to post your results and photos online is Wednesday, Feb. 28.

http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbc

The first report on the final results will not be up until March 10, but you can explore the maps and tables of the preliminary results at:

http://gbbc.birdsource.org/gbbcApps/results

And don’t forget to check out the photo gallery here:

http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/gallery

Paul Green of the Audubon Society and Miyoko Chu of Cornel send a “big thank you for making this a memorable and record-breaking tenth anniversary year.”

Tags: Backyard Birdcount 2007

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