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Join the Great Backyard Bird Count This Weekend

The Pennsylvania Game Commissions is asking bird and nature lovers to help out with the 2012 Great Backyard Bird County Feb. 17-20.

Looking for something to do outdoors this weekend to take advantage of the warm winter weather? The Pennsylvania Game Commission has a great suggestion -- join the 2012 Great Backyard Bird Count, which runs from Feb. 17-20.

A joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, this free event asks participants across North America to count birds and report their sightings online at www.birdsource.org/gbbc.

There's no need to go anywhere special or to have any experience in bird watching. Just head out into your backyard, community park or school playground and make a note of what you see. According to the PA Game Commission, the project is "an opportunity for people of all ages to discover the wonders of nature...and, at the same time, make an important contribution to conservation."

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