Press Release

October 2012: Forecast: Partly Sunny, Mostly Birdy
More Project FeederWatch participants needed to track winter birds

Media contact in U.S.: David Bonter, (607) 254-2457, email
Media contact in Canada: Kerrie Wilcox, (519) 586-3531, email

To find local participants for stories, contact us with town names or zip codes (we don't have county lists).

Visit the “Explore Data” section of the website to find the top 25 birds reported by state or province each year, as well as annual count summaries.

Photos are freely available for media use to accompany a FeederWatch article. Click on image for high resolution version. Please credit "Photographer Name/Project FeederWatch."

	Evening Grosbeak by Gord Belyea	Northern Cardinal by Errol Taskin		Eurasian Collared-Dove by Patricia Jones-Mestas

	Downy Woodpecker by Maria Corcacas	Black-capped Chickadee by Anne Middleton	Eastern Bluebird by Gary Mueller

	House Finch by Maria Corcacas	Common Redpoll by Jill McElderry-Maxwell

Link to FeederWatch from your web site

Place a FeederWatch button on your web site and link the button to the FeederWatch home page! We have two buttons to choose from and complete instructions for placing the button on your web site and linking it to the FeederWatch home page.

Slide Shows

We have produced three slide shows that are freely available for download by anyone interested in presenting seminars on Project FeederWatch and backyard bird feeding.

Journalists: Would you like to write a story?

Please contact:

Pat Leonard
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, New York 14850
(607) 254-2137
pel27@cornell.edu