The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual event where bird enthusiasts around the world come together to watch/listen for and count as many birds as they can. The event lasts for four days, and anyone can participate! According to the Great Backyard Bird Count website, all you have to do to participate is:

1. Decide where you’d like to watch birds. 
2. Watch birds for at least 15 minutes, over the four days of the bird count, between February 18 and February 21, 2022.
3. Count all the birds you see or hear within the time you’ve planned your bird watch. 

For more information on how to participate, check out the Great Backyard Bird Count’s website. 

Here at the Barrington Area Library, we have a plentiful amount of books to help guide you on your birdwatching journey, but here are a few that we think might be especially helpful.

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Birds Explore Their Extraordinary World by Miranda Krestovnikoff, illustrated by Angela Harding

The Bird Atlas by Barbara Taylor, illustrated by Richard Orr

Cardinals by Lisa J. Amstutz

Bird Count by Susan Edwards Richmond, illustrated by Stephanie Fizer Coleman

Crow Smarts Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird by Pamela S. Turner, photographs by Andy

Bird Guide of North America by Jonathan K. Alderfer

Greta the Great Horned Owl A True Story of Rescue and Rehabilitation by Christie Gove-Berg

I See Birds by Tim Mayerling

The Big Book of Birds by Yuval Zommer

Counting Birds The Idea That Helped Save Our Feathered Friends by Heidi Stemple

Blue Jays by Lisa J. Amstutz

Birds of Chicago Including NE Illinois & NW Indiana by Chris Fisher

Woodpecker by Dee Phillips

We’d love to hear about your experience with the Great Backyard Bird Count! Email us at youthservices@balibrary.org with any photos or tales from your birding adventures!

    Youth Services Specialist Stefanie