Global Bird Weekend 2021
Quapaw Canoe Company LMRD #849
Global Bird Weekend 2021: today and tomorrow! (Next opportunity will be in May 2022)
I am one day late sending this out, but if you feel like doing some birding today and tomorrow, it’s not too late to get going! You can start this morning, and join us wherever you are for Global Bird Weekend 2021 Oct 8-10. (Friend & subscriber Lisa Zeebra, a birder activist in Ecuador, alerted me to this cool & important bird count, with the ultimate goal of saving species, as well as better protection, and global awareness.)
If you are in the Lower (and Middle) Mississippi Valley, anywhere in between St. Louis and the Gulf of Mexico, you can add your findings to the Mighty Quapaw Birding Team.
Go to https://globalbirding.org/individual-registration and create a personal E-Bird account.
Go through the procedure of creating a "checklist". Basically one birdwatching session you did.
Click the "Checklist Tools" button. From that dropdown select "Share w/ others in your party"
This will open up a side panel. In the To field enter exactly: "Mighty Quapaw Birding Team". For future additions it should be saved on your contacts.
Click "Share Checklist" and you're good to go!
Happy birding y'all! (thanks Jean-Canot aka Canot aka J-C!)
Mighty Quapaw Birding Team profile page: https://ebird.org/profile/Mjc3NTYwMA/US
Who Are We?
We are a team of river guides and river lovers who build canoes and paddle them on guided wilderness trips down remote wild places of the Lower Mississippi River Valley. We guide people into the vast wilderness that is created by the floodplain of the biggest river in North America -- from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. We make explorations of the many biotas encompassed by the big river from the broad & deep main channel of the river to its back channels, to its wetlands, from its steep ravined bluffs to its oxbow lakes, its bottomland hardwood forests, its giant islands, caney breaks, giant sandbars, and its open fields and willow woods. Each biota created by the river is favored by different species of birds (for example the interior least tern like to nest on the giant Miss River sandbars; the Swainson's warbler prefer the caney breaks found on Lower Miss Valley islands; and etc, and etc.). Our mission is to share and protect what remains of the wild Lower Mississippi. Our work creates unique opportunities for experiencing and witnessing the wonders of wildlife in their natural habitat.
What is our Region?
Floodplain of the Lower (and Middle) Mississippi River. We cover a huge region, almost 1200 miles, from St. Louis to the Gulf, add on 159 miles of the Atchafalaya, and dozens more miles down all of the various passes to the Gulf of Mexico, and even more into the Mississippi Sound — its too big for any one person or group — so the more eyes the better!
Sending a paddler’s “Whoo-whoop!” to you from our Mighty Quapaw team! Best of wishes to all on this exciting global bird-counting adventure weekend!
