Since 1950, there has been a Madison-area count every single year, making this the 97th overall Madison-area CBC and the 75th consecutive. The Madison-area CBC was held on December 20, 2025.
Photo by Edgar Spalding
2024 Madison-area Christmas Bird Count
As I write this, the snow is falling in the most delightful way. The chickadees are flitting about as if to encourage and confirm that winter birding is fun and productive! Little do they know, a community of hundreds of volunteers combed the city on Saturday, counting them and their feathered comrades for the Madison-area Christmas Bird Count.
Photo by Gail Smith
2023 Madison-area CBC results
2022 Madison-area CBC results
Each December, birders come together for the longest-running citizen science project in the US: the Christmas Bird Count. The national effort is coordinated by National Audubon Society, but there are thousands of counts done locally, coordinated by local birders. In the Madison-area, the count is coordinated by Madison Audubon, and put on with help from over 100 volunteers each year.
Photo by Arlene Koziol
Madison Audubon's Kestrel Nest Box Program - 2020 Update
Helping the American kestrel increase its numbers and providing data to the American kestrel Partnership has all the qualities of a good citizen science project for Madison Audubon. Madison Audubon’s volunteers began directly helping kestrels in 1985 when Mark, Sue, and volunteer Greg Geller began erecting kestrel nest boxes at Goose Pond around 1985. The kestrel nest box project really started to take off in 2009 with a coordinator (me) assigned to the project, and then again in 2012 when Mark and Sue ask me to check the nest boxes using a spy camera, a major advancement in the efficiency and effectiveness of monitoring.
Photo by Phil Brown
