Spend time in your favorite places watching birds—then tell us about them! In as little as 15 minutes notice the birds around you. Identify them, count them, and submit your counts to help scientists better understand and protect birds around the world. If you already use eBird or Merlin, your submissions over the 4 days count toward GBBC.
Connect to Birds, to Nature, and with Each Other
Share your birds with us February 13-16 and be a part of this global event.
Upcoming Webinar: Get Excited for GBBC
This lively, beginner-friendly webinar will inspire you to deepen your connection with birds while joining a worldwide count.
Join this one-hour live event to discover tips, tricks, and ideas to prepare for the GBBC, a fun and impactful global community science event! GBBC team members will share how to participate with confidence, while special guest and author Julia Zarankin explores beginner birding and the love and joy of backyard birds.
Be Part of a Global Event
Watch observations roll in from around the world. Each submitted checklist becomes a glowing light on our bird sightings map.
Map or Find Community Birding Events
Are you birding for GBBC as a part of a community event? Add it to the map so others can join you and so we have a better sense of how the world comes together to celebrate birds.
Showcase Your Photos
We enjoy seeing your pictures from the event. Share pictures of birds, yourself, and others birdwatching in your yards or at your favorite birding spots.
See 2025 Final Results
In a word, unbelievable! At a time when the world feels fractured, we demonstrated that we can and will come together for the birds. Collectively, we found 8,078 species of the world’s known species, that is 158 more than in 2024. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world were birding during those four days in February. Our whole is more powerful than the sum of the parts.
We all need an incentive to get outside midwinter and look for birds beyond what we can see from our windows. It’s fun to see the little flashes of light on the map when we submit our counts, among the thousands around the world, and we know our data matter.
Barb Gorges, Wyoming, United States
Boglárka Amrein Tamásné Miskolczi in Hungary.