{"id":114900,"date":"2026-02-15T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:32:15","slug":"great-backyard-bird-count-gets-underway-in-western-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/114900\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Backyard Bird Count gets underway in western Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents across western Pennsylvania held binoculars and notebooks over the weekend as many participated in the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdcount.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">Great Backyard Bird Count<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From robins to blue jays, bird enthusiasts took part in a global effort to collect data and create a real-time snapshot of bird populations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest part of it is to collect information that scientists can use to determine how birds are doing,&#8221; according to a representative with the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania. &#8220;It&#8217;s a really fantastic opportunity to be able to look at bird trends, bird health, and what their populations are in western Pennsylvania and across the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to participate, you still can from your own backyard. All you need to do is watch your birds on a feeder for as little as 15 minutes while using the Merlin or eBird apps to report what you see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents across western Pennsylvania held binoculars and notebooks over the weekend as many participated in the Audubon Society&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-114900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}