The time of year has come when migratory birds cross continents and even hemispheres to return home to their nesting grounds. Because long-distance migrants face many hazards during their journeys, Team Sapsucker, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's top birding team, has chosen to spend 24 hours of non-stop birding in Panama, a region critical to the travels of migratory birds in the Western Hemisphere.



Big Day is the Cornell Lab's biggest conservation fundraiser of the year, as we focus attention on the conservation concerns birds encounter. It's also a celebration of the diversity of birds as Team Sapsucker birds along a route to find as many species as possible in one day. 

This year's Big Day raises the bar for what we can do for birds. For our first Global Big Day, we're sending Team Sapsucker outside of the United States, and inviting you to join us on May 9 by adding your checklist to the team's list of species found. Our goal is to raise $500,000 for conservation and, with help from bird watchers everywhere, collectively tally 4,000 species—40 percent of the world's bird species—on eBird.org in 24 hours.



Your donations and species checklists provide the Cornell Lab with the resources and data needed to make smart land management decisions that benefit birds in your region and across the world. Please make a donation today as we count down to Global Big Day.



With your help, we can support birds and their habitats through on-the-ground research and conservation across these species' full life cycle, as they cross hemispheres between nesting grounds and wintering habitats.

Learn more at: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/