City Nature Challenge 2020

https://citynaturechallenge.org/city-list-2020/

Ornithology conferences aren’t typically of interest to anyone but ornithologists. We spend days cooped up in meetings, listening to speakers, staring at graphs and tables, and attempting to digest research on bird physiology, migration and genetics.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-15/op-ed-for-scientists-good-research-is-not-enough-we-have-to-tell-our-stories?_amp=true

Look! Up in the sky! It’s … not as much as there used to be. Three billion wild birds have vanished from North America’s air in 50 years; a new study calls that loss “staggering.” Three billion is as many as 1 bird in 4 — birds of the forests, birds of the grasslands, gone.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-03-18/coronavirus-lockdown-consider-the-birds-three-billion-of-which-have-vanished?_amp=true