Every year since 1900 the National Audubon Society has conducted an annual Christmas Bird Count. The first Calaveras Christmas Bird Count was December 29, 1990. That count was the 91st count for the National Audubon Society and Calaveras was one of 1600 counts and the 29 participants joined 45,000 other participants throughout North American and Central and South American. Future bird counts will be from December 14- January 5. Calaveras counts are usually the last Saturday of this range. Below are some links for information relating to this count.
History of Christmas Birds Counts in the US.
History of the Calaveras Christmas Bird Count.
Copy of the original Application for a Bird Count in Calaveras.
Summary of Past Calaveras Christmas Bird Counts.
Names of People who have Participated once or more in the CLV CBC.
Following are the Past Totals seen in each region of the Calaveras Christmas
Bird Counts
along with a brief description of the region.
| REGION AND DESCRIPTIVE NAME | date of last update |
| Region 1 Calaveras Big Trees State Park | 3/1/03 |
| Region 2 Blue Lake Springs | 3/1/03 |
| Region 3 Love Creek Road/Fly in Acres | 3/1/03 |
| Regions 2 and 3 added together | 3/1/03 |
| Region 4 Forest Meadows | 3/1/03 |
| Region 5 Pennsylvania Gulch | 3/1/03 |
| Region 6 Camp Nine Road/Forebay | 3/1/03 |
| Region 7 White Pines/Meadowmont | 3/1/03 |
| Region 8 Hathaway Pines/Hanford Hills | 3/1/03 |
| Region 9 Murphys | 3/1/03 |
| Region 10 Mt.Ranch/Emery Reservoir | 3/1/03 |
| Region 11 Blue Mountain | 3/1/03 |
| Region 12 Pine Ridge | 3/1/03 |
| Region 13 Armstrong/Sheep Ranch | 3/1/03 |
| Region 14 Indian Creek/Mineral Mountain | 3/1/03 |
This information was written by Penelope Bowen formerly the Calaveras
County Coordinator
and the original compiler for the CBC.
Map of the CLV CBC
Note - this map is not very clear on the web but it will show the regions
and somewhat explain the rational for the placement of the count circle.
We wanted to include Calaveras Big Trees State Park and we didn't want
too much area south of the Stanislaus River. We also had to be at least five
miles from any existing counts.
For a complete list of birds seen in Calaveras County go to
the CLV County Seasonal List
Copy of the Tally Sheet for reporting on the day of the Christmas Bird Count:
Form for keeping track of Region totals each year.