NZ Big Day Birdathon 2017
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 8:33 pm
Hi birders,
Big Day
We have organised a face book page for the first ever nationwide Big Day in New Zealand. It is called The Big Day Birdathon NZ 2017, please ‘like’ it to stay tuned for updates and information.
Get your binoculars and friends and join the fun day.
The rules for the Big Day are the same as those used by the American Birding Association for a big day count. See http://listing.aba.org/big-day-count-rules/. However flying in any type of aircraft is not allowed in the NZ Big Day.
The event runs from 12am on Saturday 16 December to 11:59 pm on Sunday 17 Dec 2017. Your team of at least two people chooses a consecutive 24 hour period to complete your Count but this must occur during ONE calendar day only, eg. either Saturday or Sunday.
We are wanting to use E-bird to collect results, our thinking was people enter a traveling checklist and then share that with us all.
We are wanting to print some T-shirts for the Dig Bay but need some help with this ! Any Help out there Please. Thinking the cost of a T-shirt may be like a registration fee perhaps !
We are trying to get Forest and Bird interested, and using your personal sponsorship, you personally donated to the Forest And Bird cause which you support. Example you get people pledge to give you $0.50 cents per bird you spot and record on the Big day.
Any feedback and help much appreciated.
Thanks Mark and Petrina