Tap or click the image to see Merlin and eBird submissions during the Great Backyard Bird Count on Saturday, February 19, 2022. Yellow dots indicate a checklist submission, which revert to a white dot in the background.
Share Your Birds with Us
The Great Backyard Bird Count uses eBird, one of the world’s largest nature databases. It stores more than 100 million bird sightings contributed each year and is used by professionals for science and conservation.
New to the Great Backyard Bird Count or to using eBird? Explore our How to Participate on options for entering your bird lists.
We enjoy seeing your pictures from the count. Share pictures of birds, yourself, and others birdwatching in your yards or at your favorite birding spots.
Photos from GBBC 2022. Top row: Greater Flameback by Prasenjit Bhattacharjee in India; Vidhya Sundar in United States; Northern Cardinal by Kim Lackey in Canada; Judy Brunner in United States. Second row: Uma Pandiyan in Qatar; Mallard by Noam Markus in Canada; Katelyn Strader in Canada; Himalayan Monal by Tshering Tobgay in Bhutan. Third row: Great Tit by Paolo Mancardi in Italy; Jane Simao in United States; Barred Owl by Matt Boley in United States; Rafaela Wolf de Carvalho in Brazil.
Susan Szeszol in United States/GBBC.
We all need an incentive to get outside mid-winter and look for birds beyond what we can see from our windows. It’s fun to see the little flashes of light on the map when we submit our counts, among the thousands around the world, and we know our data matter.
