Last week we carried out a first census of House Crows in Watamu for some time - 2,774 crows counted but I know there ate many more ee missed that passed behind trees. We aim to repeat the count to compare results, but the last count in 2013  was about half this number anyway...

Getting involved with and contributing to the Kenya Bird Map to achieve solid coverage of the coastal strip will provide excellent data on House Crow distribution and abundance. Furthermore it will give a clear indication of presence and abundance of the other indigenous species and as we (hopefully) start a poisoning programme of the crows soon, will give very clear results as to the impact of the poisoning in reducing crow numbers coupled with how the local bird populations bounce back in response.

Join us in painting the coastal strip green - I.e. Four Full Protocol cards per pentad (atlas square) which turns the pentad green on the Coverage Map on the atlas website. Four cards for a pentad means you can do some nice statistics on the reporting rate to give a good picture of abundance of a species.

Atlassing is really enjoyable, is a stimulating challenge, helps to hone your birding skills as well as allows you to contribute to the key bird project to fees into bird conservation over the next decade... Please do join us - write to kenyabirdmap@naturekenya.org or reply to me to register.

Colin

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Colin Jackson
A Rocha Kenya

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