A wing and a prayer as Audubon members set out on annual survey
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Bird-watchers are counting species in 2,000 locales from
Alaska to Antarctica, collecting data that will help scientists map migration trends and track habitat changes.
Reporting from New York – Some things are a given when you’re with people who count birds.
First, prepare to be interrupted.
“Chickadee!” someone will shout in the midst of a conversation that has nothing to do with the black-headed little passerine (that’s birders’-speak for a perching species).
“Oh! I just heard a yellow-bellied sapsucker!” someone else will blurt out.
“Two red-tails!” another birder will bellow, pointing skyward at a pair of hawks soaring across a slate sky beginning to drop snowflakes on the cusp of a monstrous storm.
Full Story A wing and a prayer as Audubon members set out on annual survey — latimes.com.
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