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There are roughly 50 billion individual birds in the world, a new big data study by UNSW Sydney suggests - about six birds for every human on the planet.

An irruption of grosbeaks comes to Duluth, but will they stay? Mostly absent from the region for decades, one Duluth birding expert suspects they might be making a comeback. 8:00 am, May 15, 2021 × A male evening grosbeak recently photographed by Laura Erickson in her yard in Duluths Lakeside neighborhood. A once-common species nesting in the area, Erickson is asking Northlanders to keep an eye out for nesting evening grosbeaks to see if they might be making a comeba...

Use these online tools to help you track migratory bird traffic in Central Ohio

Brendan McDermid/Reuters A "ghost forest" in New Yorks Madison Square Park is a haunting reminder of the climate crisis. The art installation by architect Maya Lin is made up of 49 dead Atlantic white cedar trees.  Visitors walking through the trees can hear recordings of endangered and extinct native animals. There are 49 dead trees standing in New York Citys Madison Square Park right now, surrounded by cement skyscrapers. The public art installation, titled "Gho...

A new public art installation by Maya Lin is made up of 49 dead trees from New Jersey that were inundated with saltwater due to rising sea levels.

In Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron District, 49 coastal Atlantic cedars – each around 40ft tall, leafless branches grasping at the sky – tower over Madison Square Park’s usually flat, grassy plain. The spectral forest, a new installation by the artist and architect Maya Lin, looms like a jarring holdout from winter – barren, save for smattering of lichen on each trunk, a stark contrast to the verdant six-acre park’s late-spring growth and the...

The urban forest recalls the island’s pre-city past as a dense woodland teeming with birdsong and animals larger than rats, and stands as a sort of slow-rolling funeral – the 49 trees, all about 80 years old, are still technically alive but will die completely within about two years, the victim of saltwater tree rot from rising sea levels in New Jersey’s coastal Pine Barrens region. Lin’s Ghost Forest, hosted in the park until 14 November, takes it name from the ecological p...

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Birders visiting Sanibel and Captiva have a new resource when scanning the brush and beaches with binoculars for fine-feathered flocks. The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation compiled a comprehensive list of birds found on the islands. The new list includes nearly 300 species that have been observed on the islands. The digital-friendly list includes everything from New World warblers and owls to plovers and nightjars. “We just wanted to have a document for people to use for birds to see ...

Forty-nine dead trees have just been planted in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. What looks at first like a pretty serious landscaping accident is actually an art installation by Maya Lin that’s been created in order to highlight the effects of climate change. Advertisement Lin, who’s perhaps best known for creating the Washington, D.C. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, brought the dead trees from the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where rising sea levels have killed stretches of the forest’s Atlant...