Since 2003, the Upper Main Line YMCA’s Earth Service Corps has sent a middle school and high school team to compete in New Jersey Audubon’s annual World Series of Birding. This 24 hour competition involves teams, within youth and adult divisions, to identify as many bird species, by sight or sound, within the entire state of New Jersey. The goal of the competition is to raise funds for each team’s conservation project of their choosing and to raise awareness to encourage the preservation of wildlife habitat within the state of New Jersey.
Our youth teams have raised money through this event to fund various projects such as: a new aquarium exhibit for the EE Center’s snapping turtle, to help fund box turtle population tracking in Berks County, and rehabilitate the EE Center’s wildlife habitat garden.
