Calendar of Annual Birding Events in the Upper Cumberland Region

Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) are a favorite bird-monitoring activity of many birders.  CBCs are currently conducted annually in several count circles in the Upper Cumberland Region.  CBCs have also been conducted during past winters as long ago as 1936 in at least three other counties of the Region, and Christmas BirdBlitzes (CBBs)—one-time, not annual,  events—have been conducted in two additional Regional counties. As of January 2018, about 250 CBCs of various sorts had been conducted covering parts of 18 Regional counties.

To access the Central Node for CBCs/CBBs conducted Regionally, as well as for other information relating to CBCs, click on the link below:

    Regional results starting in 2003 of a modified version of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)—most recently conducted 15–18 February 2013—may be accessed by clicking on the appropriate link below (note that GBBC data was submitted in the same manner as eBird data during 2013 and thereafter):

    Spring Bird Counts (SBCs), Spring BirdBlitzes (SBBs), and Spring Mini-BirdBlitzes (SMBs) have been conducted in 20 counties of the Upper Cumberland Region; over 100 of these events have taken place through May 2018.  To access a page with links to results of SBCs and SBBs conducted Regionally in years past, click on the link below:

    An Upper Cumberland Region Foray (UCR Foray) is a bird-monitoring effort designed to document the breeding status, distribution, and, if possible, abundance of all species breeding within a single county.  Historical forays were conducted in Bledsoe (1987), Cumberland (1985), Fentress (1979), Overton (1986), Pickett (1979), and White (1982 and 2007) counties, Tennessee, by members of the TOS or by members of other groups.  UCR Forays were conducted in DeKalb (2008), Jackson (2009), Pickett (2009), Cumberland (2010), Clay (2010), Overton (2011), Putnam (2011), Van Buren (2011), Bledsoe (2012), Macon (2013), Fentress (2013), Morgan (2014), White (2015), Smith (2015, Warren (2016), and Scott (2016) counties, Tennessee, and in Clinton (2009), Pulaski (2010), McCreary (2011), Wayne (2012), Russell (2012), Barren (2013), Metcalfe (2013), Adair (2014), Cumberland (2014), and Monroe (2015) counties, Kentucky.

    The Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is an important program that monitors the populations of most of the breeding species in the UCR.  Here are links to the national BBS website and to data from the 8 BBS routes annually conducted within the Upper Cumberland Region:

BBS Data for Upper Cumberland Region BBS Website

    Fall Bird Counts (FBCs) or Fall BirdBlitzes (FBBs) have been conducted in 14 counties of the UCR—Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, and Wayne counties, Kentucky, and Bledsoe, Clay, DeKalb, Fentress, Macon, Morgan, Pickett, Putnam, and White counties, Tennessee.  To access a page with dates of the current season's FBCs and FBBs, as well as with links to results of Regional FBCs and FBBs, now totaling 32 such events,  click on the link below:

FBC

Natural Moments: An Intermittent Upper Cumberland Almanac