Bucks County Birders
Est. 2003
Welcome to Bucks County Birding
Join us in exploring the beautiful world of wild birds in southeastern Pennsylvania.
This Month in Birding
January - Ducks & Gulls Galore!
As the winter weather beats us down this year with a few cold fronts and snow storms, it also brought the beautiful winter birds - the ducks and gulls. This is the time to wear the layers to visit the waterfronts to view the variety of waterfowls in Bucks County. Especially, southern Bucks County is known for its winter rarities, due to the many lakes, ponds and wetlands alongside the Delaware riverfront. Please subscribe to eBird alerts and bucks county RBA channel in discord to know the latest winter rarity in the area. This month’s rarity roundup includes Rough-legged Hawk, Short-eared owl, Eurasian wigeon, Canvasback, Dickcissel, etc. If you want to see these birds, please send us an email for more information.
Bird Surveys:
Audubon Climate Watch survey for the winter happens between January 15th and February 15th. Read about the survey here: https://www.audubon.org/community-science/climate-watch
Winter Raptor Survey is conducted every year by Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology. Details here.
PA Bird Atlas 3 Winter Season - Winter is also an important time to enter atlas data in your area. If you have questions about how to do winter atlas, here are the details.
Upcoming Bucks County Birders events:
Bird Safe Doylestown
In 2025, we launched Bird Safe Doylestown and Bird Safe Bucks County programs, modeled after the nationally recognized Bird Safe Philly (www.birdsafephilly.org) program. Thanks to the multiple organizations supporting this initiative, Bucks County Birders, Bird Town PA, Bucks County Audubon, Bird Safe Philly and PA Audubon Council, this multi-year initiative aims to protect our local bird population by monitoring bird collisions and developing strategies to mitigate bird collisions with buildings during their migration periods. Ask Bucks County Birders team for more info.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED !!
Starting April 15th, 2026, we are starting the Spring 2026 bird collision monitoring at the Admin Building and the Justice Center in Doylestown Borough to collect dead and rescue injured birds. Dead birds will be safely transported to Academy of Natural Sciences at the Drexel University. The injured birds will be taken to AARK Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Chalfont.
We are looking for volunteers to walk the around the buildings and collect dead and injured birds between September 15th and November 15th, every day in the morning. We need volunteers to monitor and also volunteers to transport the injured birds to AARK. We are flexible and can accommodate depending on your schedule.
Please contact bucksbirders@gmail.com for further info or use the following registration link for volunteer signup.
Thank you!
Birds of Bucks County - A Bucks Audubon Publication!
We are delighted to announce that the 2nd edition of Birds of Bucks County has been published! It is available at book stores and at the Bucks County Audubon Book Store for pick up for $30. Please order your copy today at Bucks Audubon Store here.
If you haven’t already heard, Pennsylvania is in its second year of the third Bird Atlas (2024-2029). The goal of the atlas is to record what birds are breeding in PA and what birds reside here in the winter. If you bird, you can be contributing! The best place to start is at the Atlas Project on eBird . If you have ANY questions feel free to email your atlas coordinators, Erich Boenzli and Barbara Stollsteimer at PBA3.Bucks@gmail.com
Bucks County is broken down into 78 blocks - 72 full size (3 mile by 3 mile) and 6 partial blocks along the Delaware River. We would love it if you wanted to take responsibility for a block (you don’t have to do all the birding - just track it’s status and see what it needs). Find out what blocks are available here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/63b22e740f834def847b1d9f211cb0e3/page/PA-Bird-Atlas-Map/
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Bird Walks
Explore birding in Bucks County and nearby locations with us by joining our monthly trips or bird walks in local parks.
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Meetings
Primarily by Zoom and periodically in person on the 4th Tuesday of the month, we invite an interesting speaker to our monthly meeting. Check who is joining us next month!
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Conservation
Education and Habitat Conservation is high on our list of priorities. We are committed to set aside a portion of our funds towards conservation efforts that have a specific impact in our county. Learn more.
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Join Us
We love to see you join our flock and be a part of the Bucks County birding community. Join us today.