Scientists Use Data Collected by Citizen Scientists and Bird Watchers to Map Bird Migration

This may be of interest to local bird watchers.

From the article at All About Birds:

Scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have documented migratory movements of bird populations spanning the entire year for 118 species throughout the Western Hemisphere using millions of observations from the eBird citizen-science database. 

Read more about the work at [All About Birds], by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

REFERENCE

La Sorte, F.A., D. Fink, W.M. Hochachka, and S. Kelling. 2016. Convergence of broad-scale migration strategies in terrestrial birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 10.1098/rspb.2015.2588.

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Published at 4:44pam on Tuesday, March 30, 2021