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eBird Team Sapsucker Finds 279 Species in Chile and California for Big Day 2023 Bird Watching, News, News & Features
A bird keeps flying into my window or car mirror, on purpose. What should I do? Bird Behavior, FAQs & Common Problems, Problems, Windows
Against a Backdrop of Bird Declines, Complex Problems Meet Creative Solutions Biology, Conservation, News & Features, Science & Conservation
NestWatch Join NestWatch Citizen Science
Nocs Provisions Pro Issue 8×42 Binoculars: Our Review Binoculars, Binoculars & Gear
Athlon Midas G2 UHD 8×42 Binoculars: Our Review Binoculars, Binoculars & Gear
Athlon Argos G2 HD 8×42 Binoculars: Our Review Binoculars, Binoculars & Gear
Meopta Optika HD 8×42 Binoculars: Our Review Binoculars, Binoculars & Gear
Pentax SD WP 8×42 Binoculars: Our Review Binoculars, Binoculars & Gear
I found a baby bird. What do I do? FAQs & Common Problems, Nests & Baby Birds
Living Bird Magazine Gallery: Who Really Painted These Resplendent Quetzals? Art, News & Features
Living Bird Magazine How Do Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned Hawks Coexist in Backyards? FeederWatch Investigates Behavior, Biology, Bird Watching, Food & Foraging, News & Features
View from Sapsucker Woods: What’s the Role of the Cornell Lab in the Global South? News & Features, Science & Conservation
Living Bird Magazine A Poet-Ornithologist Walks Walden Pond, From Boise to Concord News & Features, Science & Conservation
Living Bird Magazine Costa Ricans Join Hands to Cultivate a Quetzal Community News & Features, Science & Conservation

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Feature Articles

A Modest Proposal: Can eBird Help Choose Better State Birds? [Part 1]
We love cardinals, mockingbirds, and meadowlarks, too—but do these 3 species have to represent 18 separate states? We turned to eBird to find alternative state birds with data to back them up.
By Matt Smith and Marc Devokaitis

Costa Ricans Join Hands to Cultivate a Quetzal Community
The retired editor of Birds of North America finds a slice of Costa Rica where the regal Resplendent Quetzal has inspired communion among farms and tourist lodges, birds and people.
Essay by Alan Poole
At Famed Walden Pond, Spring Is Coming Earlier Than It Did in Thoreau’s Day
The detailed record of bird sightings and phenological observations around Concord, Massachusetts—from Thoreau’s notes 170 years ago to today’s studies by scientists at Boston University—provides a key to studying how climate change is affecting bird migration.
By Amanda S. Gallinat and Richard B. Primack; Photography by Tim Laman
A Poet-Ornithologist Walks Walden Pond, From Boise to Concord
“I first met Thoreau in my junior high English composition and American literature classes. Most of my peers didn’t take to Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, but I did. Even if removed from my own life by more than a century, there was this hint of kindred spiritedness, across time and race and place, that appealed to me.”
Essay by J. Drew Lanham; Photography by Tim Laman
Bright Lights and Big Data: Radar Ornithology and the Rise of BirdCast
A small group of innovative researchers cracked the secret of bird migration—and then set about applying that knowledge to save birds from the hazards of city lights.
By Rebecca Heisman

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