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This Garden Birdwatch is a very settled project in the North of Europe and specially, in United Kingdom that was carried out by 600,000 families during the past year. Inguruko hegaztiak project promoted by Urdaibai Bird Center in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Biscay, try to encourage the involvement and knowledge about the birds from our surroundings, by the installation of simple structures (winter birdfeeders) that attract the birds in winter for being fed in our surroundings.
Those birds have enough food during spring and summer, so in those seasons, it is not necessary to give them an additional contribution of food, because the birds prefer to feed on insects and berries that find in their habitats without problems. However, once the winter arrives, the temperatures fall down and this makes the food availability to be very low. In that moment, the passerine get closer to our birdfeeders and we can enjoy them. The birdfeeders attract different species of birds to our gardens and a great amount of some of them.
This project is opened to all the schools of Urdaibai that want to participate, like the people that want to do it individually. As a novelty, this year there is a web blog about the project where all the participants can show their sightings, information, photos and videos of the birds of their surroundings:
Common Chaffinchs coming from Scandinavia or Siskins and Robins from Baltic countries are in our gardens... It's time to take out the binoculars and photo cameras to enjoy the nature spectacle that we have in front of us..
  
The deadline for signing up this project is December 31st. At the end of the project (2014 March), a report will be sent to every participant where all the data gathered on the bird identification sheet will be appeared, in order to know the seasonal evolution of the different species that visit the birdfeeders of the gardens of each participant.
For taking part in this project it is necessary to have the following things:
1.- A minimum space of green area with any tree or a perimeter tree surrounding.
2.- At least, two kind of birdfeeders (i. e. table birdfeeders of canary seed and another one of mesh for peanuts) always plenty of food.
For more information contact with us:
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Information for the project (Basque language and Spanish):
Instructions
Participation sheet
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