After suffering a stroke in 2006, Lauren Young was in a coma for five weeks. The year before, Hurricane Rita had struck the coast of southwest Louisiana, where Young lives, wiping out many of the ...

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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is gearing up for Project FeederWatch, an annual project inviting participants in the United States and Canada to observe and report bird species. This year’s season ...

Starting Nov. 1 and running through April 30, 2025, Lancaster County residents of all ages and observation skills can join one of the nation’s largest and most popular citizen-scientist projects: ...

Winter offers us a chance to appreciate the backyard birds in our communities. Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada offer Project FeederWatch, an effort that engages people in observing and ...

I had planned to write this last week, but got side-tracked. Fortunately, it isn't too late to recruit a few more Citizen Scientists, who may be as young as grade schoolers or as old as retired ...

Project FeederWatch, a citizen science project where participants collect data on birds at their feeders, was founded in Ontario by Erica Dunn and the Long Point Bird Observatory in 1976. The project ...

If you need a unique, locally produced gift for a bird lover this season, look for my “The Best of Cheyenne Bird Banter” book. See yuccaroadpress.com for the list of local stores. It’s also available ...