GREENSBORO -- Bird shop owner Liz Schmid is an active bird watcher and supporter of The Great Backyard Bird Count.

"The Great Backyard Bird Count is one of the biggest citizen science projects that we have today," she explained.

"Just imagine what it would be like for scientists to be paid to go out and count birds all across the country, it's just financially impossible."

That's why scientists enlist the help of bird watchers all over the United States to get a count every year during The Great Backyard Bird Count. Last year there were over 80,000 reports with a count of 11-million birds.

A group of bird watchers from the Piedmont Bird Club spent their Saturday morning at Country Park in Greensboro counting birds for the project just as they have done for several years.

"You see some birds disappearing; you see some birds re-appearing like starlings, the kind of birds you really don't want like lots and lots of grackles and sparrows, house sparrows," Piedmont Bird Club president Susan Weimer said.

Schmid says the reason some birds are disappearing is because so many trees are coming down for development. But putting up a bird house can help the population.

"If we put up a nest box into your yard the birds can come and use that as a substitute for those old holes in trees" she explained.

Once the bird counters finish, they will turn over the data to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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