A pair weeks in the past when it was truly feeling like winter in NYC I needed to ditch my laptop to look out the window – was I truly listening to a flock of geese (or geese 😅) simply now migrating south?! Didn’t that used to occur within the fall? Some fast googling didn’t actually assist, I couldn’t see who had simply zoomed by and I don’t know a lot about birds.
Turns out issues are taking place with birds, however not precisely in the way in which I had thought of. Flowingdata shared The Washington Post’s Climate Lab: Bird populations are declining. Some are in your neighborhood. piece created with information from eBird.
I’m on a Zoom name with a staff of researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, their gridded video feeds a kind of Hollywood Squares of chicken nerds, and we’re discussing the decline and fall of North America’s chicken inhabitants — a staggering lack of 3 billion breeding adults, or almost 30 % of the inhabitants, in only a half century — when rapidly Gus Axelson picks up his binoculars and friends out the window.
“Gus,” I ask, “are you birding right now?”
Axelson, the Cornell Lab’s editorial director, rapidly apologizes, however I inform him to go forward and chicken. I’ve a job, however birders like Axelson have a calling, and nobody can predict when nature will name. “I had white-throated sparrows that have been gone for a couple of days,” Axelson, who leads manufacturing of Living Bird, the lab’s quarterly journal, explains when he places down the binoculars. “They just popped back up.”
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