Do you enjoy participating in bioblitzes?

Join us for the county's First ever ECO-BLITZ (January-December), Where you can contribute by participating in this easy and fun citizen science project. Collecting important species biodiversity data. Help create plant and animal inventories at any of our twelve Maricopa County Parks (Maricopa County, Arizona) . All you have to do is JOIN the project, locate a plant or animal, take a few pictures and upload to the I-Naturalist Project Maricopa County Parks Eco-BLITZ . Attempt to identify, so you are learning about species as you go. Its that easy! Join us and you will receive a link to the monthly challenges!

While visiting any of Maricopa County Parks you can help document species by taking a few good pictures of a plant or wildlife species, upload your pictures to the I-naturalist and attempt to identify your species. I-naturalist will provide some options of similar species, so you may want to research or you can just let the I-naturalist experts review your photos and provide the correct species on your picture.

In 2020 Nerdy For Birdies and Maricopa County Parks Master Naturalists ran the first CBC circle for the Phoenix Metro area. Believe it or not,  Phoenix and the surrounding cities have not been counted since the early 1900's. After watching a documentary about the CBC Ninja Birder was inspired to get involved. We hold the Rowyn Balman Phoenix Metro Christmas Bird Count every December on the 4th Saturday.

If you would like to help us in the future with the Christmas Bird Count please email nerdyforbirdies@gmail.com

Join the ASU project on iNat “Citizen Scientists  Saving the Saguaro” 

After you select “join,” it will appear on your project list while submitting observations. Make sure to add to this project if your observation includes a saguaro that appears unhealthy.