It’s a question that’s intrigued and confounded everyone from toddlers to post-doctoral researchers: Where do birds go?
, a new interactive digital platform launched Thursday by National Audubon Society, provides the clearest answer yet, just in time for fall migration season.
Choose a city like Chicago and watch as spokes radiate out from the hub, looking very much like an airline’s route map but representing infinitely more flights. that North America has lost 3 billion — or 30% — of its birds since 1970. Among the vanished, 2.5 billion were migratory birds, according to Deppe.One exception, she noted, was waterfowl, a group whose numbers actually increased. Deppe credited the collective, collaborative approach to the protection of wetlands for waterfowl’s success.
She always knew, she said, that a huge pool of data existed, but much of it was inaccessible. “You couldn’t get it unless you knew who was doing the research and how to contact them,” Beilke said. While the bird lover in her has enjoyed navigating Explorer and looking at individual bird’s journeys, she said, the researcher in her is excited by the amount of legwork the site represents, putting all the results of those hundreds of previous studies at her fingertips.
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