2012 Youth Bird Count

Juan Carlos Solis,right, Educational Director of Wildcare in San Rafael, gives instructions on how to properly use binoculars, distributed to the kids for the Winter Youth Bird Count, in the first educational collaboration of Audubon, PBRO and Wildcare at the Pickleweed Community Center in San Rafael, Calif. on Saturday, January 14, 2012.The warm weather brought three times as many participants as last year, with 51 children and 43 adults registering for the annual event that was conceived by Wendy Dalia, the Educational Director at Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary. (Special to the IJ/Jocelyn Knight)

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Juan Carlos Solis,right, Educational Director of Wildcare in San Rafael, gives instructions on how to properly use binoculars, distributed to the kids for the Winter Youth Bird Count, in the first educational collaboration of Audubon, PBRO and Wildcare at the Pickleweed Community Center in San Rafael, Calif. on Saturday, January 14, 2012.The warm weather brought three times as many participants as last year, with 51 children and 43 adults registering for the annual event that was conceived by Wendy Dalia, the Educational Director at Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary. (Special to the IJ/Jocelyn Knight)

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