Bird watchers descended on North Park Dec. 29 for the 119th Annual Christmas Bird Count.
Meg Scanlon, an interpretive naturalist for the Allegheny County Parks Department at its Latodami Environmental Education Center in North Park, coordinated the North Park count.
The annual bird counts are important sources of information gathered to trace the distribution and abundance of birds, according to Scanlon.
The local data that is collected is given to the National Audubon Society for analysis.
This was one of many bird-counting circles that day in Western Pennsylvania, with the most southern point near the Homestead High Level Bridge, to as far west as Ohio Township, and out east in Indiana and Harmar townships.
