Tag: Birders
Two Birders Claimed a Key Record on the Same Day—and Feathers Flew – Mother Jones
A male western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) flies over a natural meadow near Dranske on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen at dusk.Wolfram Steinberg/ZUMA
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
In late 2023, 70-year-old birder Peter Kaestner was within striking distance of a goal that had never been accomplished: seeing more than 10,000 different species of birds in the wild.
Such a record had previously been
How Birders Who Are Blind Use Birdsong to Map the World Around Them
On an average morning, Susan Glass can sit on the patio at her condominium complex in Saratoga, Calif., and identify as many as 15 different bird species by ear: a stellar’s jay, an acorn woodpecker, an oak titmouse.
For her, birding is more than a hobby. “Birds are my eyesight,” said Ms. Glass, a poet and a professor of English at West Valley Community College who has been blind since birth. “When I check into a hotel in Pittsburgh, I