In July 1992, two Danish birders visiting Patagonia, Arizona reported the first-ever, mega-rare cinnamon hummingbird in the United States. Back then, reporting rare birds required phoning in ...

The lights in the auditorium darken. The cacophony of voices subsides. The enormous screen comes to life, displaying a satellite image of Australia and the scattering of islands directly to the north.

A digital platform called "eBird" has transformed a pastime once dominated by retirees into something that is attracting teenagers, twentysomethings ...

Researchers are using eBird data with enhanced analytical models to measure bird populations and habitats across Ireland ...

More than one million people around the world stepped outside to observe and report birds as part of the Great Backyard Bird ...

Western tanagers are migratory birds that are present in Northern California in the spring and again in late summer. A new study shows that observations by 'citizen scientists' using apps such as ...

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Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...

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