2012 Youth Bird Count

Lana Smith-Callies, 12, of Corte Madera, a student at San Domenico, uses a scope to count birds in the 2nd annual Winter Youth Bird Count near Pickleweed Park in San Rafael, Calif. on Saturday, January 14, 2012. Bird populations are tallied by the kids who enter the information on computers into a national database called EBIRD.(Special to the IJ/Jocelyn Knight)

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Lana Smith-Callies, 12, of Corte Madera, a student at San Domenico, uses a scope to count birds in the 2nd annual Winter Youth Bird Count near Pickleweed Park in San Rafael, Calif. on Saturday, January 14, 2012. Bird populations are tallied by the kids who enter the information on computers into a national database called EBIRD.(Special to the IJ/Jocelyn Knight)

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