>> Spot birdies for The 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count starts Fri., Feb. 12 and runs through Mon., Feb. 15. Sierra Club’s The Green Life points out that “identifying birds in your neighborhood will help researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society, and Bird Studies Canada monitor and protect avian populations.”

>> Trap arachnids for the Los Angeles Spider Survey. According to LAist, the survey’s a Natural History Museum’s Citizen Scientist Project where “residents can bring or send in spiders they find around town for scientists to study (added bonus: you’ll get a call-back from a scientist who will identify your spider and tell you all about it).”

>> Tree killers caught on Google Camera. Those Google’s images could help prosecute for illegal tree removal, but future Google images may not be so helpful for law enforcement: “After the Canadian privacy commissioner and others raised questions about whether the roaming cameras were legal … the company implemented an automated feature that blurs faces and license plates.”

Image via birdsource.org

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