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The second Saturday in May of each year is eBird’s Global Big Day! This coincides with peak songbird migration in central Missouri, so it’s a great excuse to head outside in order to look and listen for birds. Check out the article in The Chat (coming in April) on “A new tradition for Birding Big Day!”.

Our hope is that many small groups will expand our reach across the landscape. We hope many of you will join us at the May 7 social/planning event at Logboat Brewery to connect with birding buddies for your Birding Big Day outings. 

You can also bird on your own: Bird anywhere you like: in your backyard, in a nature area, even in a parking lot; wherever you are, there are probably birds! You can use the Merlin app to help with identification of bird sounds, though please always maintain a healthy skepticism with regard to Merlin’s results; it is amazing technology, but it does make errors!

Contribute to citizen science by submitting your Global Big Day bird observations to eBird. To be included in a tally of the birds seen by CAS members, please share your eBird list(s) with the username casbirddata.

Disclaimer: Though CAS is encouraging folks to bird together, CAS does not view these outings as official CAS-sponsored events from a liability perspective.