Uplands Park and Cattle Point will be packed with avian aficionados for Big Bird Day next Saturday.

Hosted by the Friends of Uplands Park (FOUP), the first-annual event encourages folks from across Greater Victoria to spot birds passing through the scenic sites between 12 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 30.

Participants are encouraged to log spotted fowl on ebird.org – a website used to store birding observations, photos and sound recordings to allow teachers, scientists and birders to understand the movements and needs of birds at local and global scales.

“I'm really excited to see how many people are going to be involved in this and to see what the data is going to look like,” said FOUP’s president Margaret Lidkea, who helped organize the event.

In 2009, FOUP sprouted to help protect a

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