Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Individuals are invited to count the birds in their gardens at the end of May.

Twice a year since 2012, the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) and the National Museum of Natural History have invited individuals to count the birds in their gardens. The last session took place in January of this year, and 1,393 people participated in this operation in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

This is aimed at both novices and more experienced birders. It involves spending an hour counting all the birds observed, noting their species, and then sending the results of these observations to the LPO to help enrich scientific data on the subject.

The LPO recommends choosing your one-hour time slot in the morning, when birds are most active. Next, choose an observation location—a balcony, garden, or public park, in the city or countryside—and then do your count. A printable observation sheet can be found at this email address: www.bit.ly/Fichecomptage.

Afterwards, individuals can submit their observations to www.oiseauxdesjardins.fr/ . This initiative "allows us to establish trends in bird populations over the years," explains Bastien Brossard, communications officer at the LPO.

LPO technical sheets allow you to identify species at: http://bit.ly/fiches-especes or to avoid confusion between species: https://bit.ly/fiches-confusions .