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Public participation in scientific research through citizen-science projects has skyrocketed in the past 10 years. Citizen scientists have been donating billions of dollars’ worth of their time collecting information on everything from birds, bees, butterflies, and more resulting in a treasure trove of data helping scientists better understand plant, animal, and insect populations.
As spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, many birds make long-distance journeys, some traveling tens of thousands of miles between their wintering and breeding grounds. What’s more impressive—many of these journeys occur entirely at night.
When birdwatchers head out to find their favorite species, they don’t go to just any spot, they head to specific habitat types such as grasslands or evergreen forests where the species is frequently found. Information on where to expect certain species has often been generalized across a species’ entire range or a broad period in […]