On Saturday, Dec. 29, volunteer bird watchers descended upon North Park for the national 119th Annual Christmas Bird Count.
Meg Scanlon, an interpretive naturalist for the Allegheny County Parks Department at its Latodami Environmental Education Center in North Park, coordinated the North Park count. According to Scanlan, these are important sources of information pertaining to the distribution and abundance of birds. The data is given to the National Audubon Society to be used for examining trends.
This was one of many bird-counting circles that day in Western Pennsylvania, with the most southern point near the Homestead High Level Bridge, to as far west as Ohio Township, and out east in Indiana and Harmar townships.
