Itasca State Park invites you to the park next weekend for their annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count event. Itasca State Park Lead Naturalist Connie Cox tells us more about the event, and its long history at Itasca.

Cox says this bird count is done each year for scientific purposes. 

For more information about the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, or to locate a bird count near you, go to the Audubon website at www.audubon.org.