Condor Special Section Commemorating BBS

[rdeatsman]

In 1966, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist named Chan Robbins launched an international program designed to measure changes in bird populations using volunteers recruited to count birds on pre-set routes along country roads. The result, the North American Breeding Bird Survey or BBS, is still going strong more than five decades later. This week The Condor: Ornithological Applications is publishing a special set of research papers to honor the program’s fiftieth anniversary. Read the press release at https://americanornithologypubsblog.org/2017/07/26/fifty-years-on-the-breeding-bird-survey-continues-to-produce-new-insights/.