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New Migration Maps Help Birders and Scientists Find Their Sister Cities

Kristen Heath-Acre lives in Columbia, Missouri, which officially has a sister-city relationship with Hakusan City, Japan. But Heath-Acre, the state ornithologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation, says she feels increasingly of a sister-city connection to the town of Santa Marta and the mountain forests near the tailspin of northern Colombia....
  • January 09, 2024

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Team Sapsucker Finds 279 Species in Chile and

Morning birding in inside California with Team Sapsucker members Brian Sullivan and Brooke Keeney. Photo by Lizzy Chouinard. ​For Big Day 2023, Team Sapsucker split into two groups and headed to far-flung parts of the Pacific Flyway: Monterey County, California, and inside Chile. Together the teams found an phenomenal 279 species....

June 09, 2023

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June 2023 eBirder of the Month Challenge

By Team eBird May 31, 2023 Olrog’s Gull Larus atlanticus© Federico RubioMacaulay LibraryeBird This month’s eBirder of the Month challenge, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, can help you create lasting memories through written notes. The eBirder of the Month will be drawn from eBirders who submit 20 or more eligible checklists in June containing at least one...

June 09, 2023

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Against a Backdrop of Bird Declines, Complex Problems

This Perspective essay will towards in the Autumn 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Over the past century, declines in populations of iconic birds—beautifully feathered waders in Florida, California Condors, Bald Eagles—have occasionally made headlines and spurred conservation actions. In September 2019, the perils faced by birds once then...

June 09, 2023