Birds and The Fine Art of Noticing
<p>If you were to wake up tomorrow from sixteen months of fairy-tale sleep, you’d probably have a few questions. What the heck is a delta variant? What happened to restaurant menus? When did all of my friends become birdwatchers?</p>
<p>On the last Monday in May of this year, 1,046 birders in New York State submitted checklists to Cornell University’s wildly popular <a href="https://ebird.org/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">eBird</a> project, counting 247 differently-feathered species. A lot of factors influence how many people come out to watch birds on a given day (the weather, the pace of seasonal migrations) but if we look at the ‘Mean May Monday’ — the average number of eBirders out on the first day of the week across the month, it’s clear that many more people are outside with binoculars raised. This figure has increased nearly three-fold from just under seven hundred in 2018 to almost eighteen hundred in 2021.</p>
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