- Date
- 1988-10
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentwildlifesciencecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The October 1988 Beaver Beacon invited island residents to participate in Project FeederWatch, a Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology cooperative study of winter bird distribution and abundance. Participants were asked to count feeder visitors every two weeks and submit the observations for analysis.
Evidence limits
This is an invitation and project description, not evidence that a Beaver Island observer enrolled or that a local count was submitted.
Sources
- Invites observers throughout North America to make feeder counts every two weeks during winter and describes the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology project, registration, newsletters, and results. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the citizen-science invitation.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon invites island residents to join Project FeederWatch, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-project-feederwatch-invitation-1988/, accessed [date], citing “More News from the Bird World—Project FeederWatch,” Beaver Beacon, October 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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