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Garden BirdWatch Instructions What and How to record The Garden BirdWatch project is designed to help us promote effective conservation action by increasing our undertstanding of how wild birds use different resources at different times of year and of how their numbers are changing. Your garden has a unique GARDEN BIRDWATCH NUMBER which is displayed on your GBW Data Home page and is also included in all routine correspondence. This number is automatically associated with any Garden BirdWatch results you submit online. When and where should I record? Daily records are not essential but please record birds (and other garden wildlife if you so wish) from the same place and more or less the same time each week. By doing this you will be producing counts that are comparable with each other from week to week. If you are not able to spend as much time recording the birds as you feel is necessary in any particular count week, do not enter records for that week on the form. Try to put in about the same amount of effort each week. Do not be over-ambitious when planning this. Continuity is more important than quantity. One minute a week for fifty-two weeks is more useful than 52 minutes with one week, and nothing for the rest of the year! You should define your 'survey area'. In most cases this will be the whole of your garden, but if you have a particularly large garden or there are parts of the garden that you cannot see from where you do your recording, then your study area will be that part of the garden that can be seen from where you do your recording. Most Garden BirdWatch participants use a notebook to record what they see during the course of each week, only transferring this information to the online count form at the end of the week. What forms do you have to complete online? You will need to complete the About Your Garden Form that tells us about the resources that each garden provides for birds, so we can monitor how birds use different types of gardens. You will also need to complete the Online Species Count Form for each of the weeks in which you do your Garden BirdWatch recording. If you wish, you can download the Garden BirdWatch instructions as a PDF for easy storage and printing.
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