I'm tardy in announcing that I'll be participating in the first Blogger BioBlitz the week of April 21-29, which is the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Week.
- A BioBlitz is a thorough investigation of all the biodiversity of a chosen area over a 24-hour period. It's typically done by a group of scientists and volunteers. A good start to the concept of a BioBlitz here.
- National Wildlife Week is designed to increase awareness of wildlife across the nation by encouraging Youth Service and citizens to submit lists of wildlife they observe through their Wildlife Watch program. More at NWF's Wildlife Week web site.
- Involvement of bloggers was the brainchild of Jeremy Bruno at Voltage Gate. His announcement -- and your opportunity to participate -- can be found here, with updates here and here.
I'll be in the field that week, and will blitz my field site for birds one or a few days. If I have a chance, I'll include other taxa, but it depends on how busy I am or if I can rope in a few students.
P.S. I, rather amateurishly, modified the bird logo for the BBB to accurately reflect the colors of the Common Yellowthroat, even though it looked pretty cool in blue!
Do you think the common yellowthroat is what it was supposed to be modeled after? It was one of those artist's renderings of a creature plus I kind of messed with the colors too.
The CC-NC-ShareAlike license means others should feel free to grab your button for the Blitz - I'm adding it to the button stable on my post too :-).
Posted by: Jenn | 31 March 2007 at 12:46 PM
I knew something looked off about the yellowthroat, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I'll have to fix mine.
Posted by: John | 31 March 2007 at 07:56 PM
Feel free to snag mine. Just don't look too closely at my crappy workmanship!
Posted by: Nuthatch | 31 March 2007 at 08:24 PM
Looks good to me!
Posted by: Pamela | 01 April 2007 at 09:57 AM