The North American Migration count is held on the second Saturday each May; this year that date is May 10, 2008. Volunteers are mobilized to count birds on this day in order to provide a "snapshot of migration."  For more information on International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) click here. They also provide a link to e-Bird, so that you can use that link to report your data. Instructions for entering your data into this extraordinary database can be found there, or in the newsletters which you can download below.

Since the NAMC was initiated in KS in 1993, we have had counts in the following counties (although not in all counties in all years):

Barber, Barton, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Doniphan, Douglas, Finney, Ford, Geary, Greenwood, Greeley, Hamilton, Harvey, Hodgeman, Jefferson, Kearney, Kiowa, Labette, Leavenworth, Linn, Lyon, Logan, McPherson, Morris, Montgomery, Morton, Neosho, Pottawatomie, Pratt, Reno, Riley, Saline, Scott, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Sherman, Stafford, and Washington

This year we would like to cover all of these counties and more, if possible. A map and list of county coordinators, with addresses and phone numbers, is available here; please check it to see if your favorite county is being censused this year. If you want to be a county coordinator, please contact the state Coordinator, (click on his name to send an email) at drintoul AT ksu.edu, by phone (785-532-6615 days), or by snail mail at Biology Division, KSU, Manhattan KS 66506-4901. If you have any other questions about this event, please do not hesitate to ask. Thanks.

In order to make it more convenient for you to participate in the 2008 NAMC (Saturday, May 10), we have created some more resources here. You can download the latest edition of these two important documents.

KS NAMC newsletter (contains instructions for counting and reporting the birds)

• PDF (printable version, requires free Adobe Acrobat software, available from link below)
• Rich text (RTF) (can be loaded into any word processor, but will require some re-formatting)
• MS-Word (can be used directly in Microsoft Word, can be imported into WordPerfect etc.)

NAMC checklist form (list of birds for reporting your results)

• PDF (printable version, requires free Adobe Acrobat software, available from link below)
• Rich Text (rtf) (can be loaded into any word processor, but may require some re-formatting)
• MS-Word (can be used directly in Microsoft Word, can be imported into WordPerfect etc.)

The PDF files are formatted exactly like the files that are sent by snail mail, so these are the most readily usable versions. However, you can use the text or RTF files in any word processor. Just click on the links above, save the files to an appropriate folder on your hard drive, and open them in your favorite word-processing program. The Word97 versions of the checklist form can also be saved to your hard drive in the same manner, and opened in Word or WordPerfect or any other recent word processor. To use the PDF files; you will need Adobe's free Acrobat reader software to view and print these files. Just click on this Adobe link and follow the simple instructions to download and install Acrobat for ANY computer system. Other bird monitoring information can be found here.

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