Earth Matters: Guides aside, bird are where you find them
Birdwatchers at an Oregon wildlife refuge. George Gentry/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Published: 1/25/2021 12:02:55 PM
As birdwatchers travel we keep track of birds we encounter, especially those new to us. And when we travel, we want information about finding such birds.
The Massachusetts birdwatcher visiting California wants to know when and where to experience snowy plovers, tufted puffins, western screech-owls, western bluebirds, western tanagers and other western birds; the California birdwatcher on an exchange visit to Massachusetts would want information about piping plovers, Atlantic puffins, eastern screech-owls, eastern bluebirds, scarlet tanagers and other northeastern species.