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    Lockdowns are turning cooped-up residents into citizen scientists

    Jul 01, 2020 5 minutes
    Isoo O’Brien walks through a nature preserve on Chicago’s South Side on May 29, 2020. He used to get rare-bird alerts while in class and hope the bird would be in the same area after the school bell rang so he could investigate. Isoo has been contributing to the eBird website since he was 11.

    Isoo O’Brien tilts his head toward the exuberant trills issuing from nearby cottonwoods. “That’s a wren,” he says softly. Lifting his binoculars, he scans a reedy pond glinting in the morning sun. “Pied-billed grebe,” he says.

    Walking quietly through a nature preserve in the industrial wastelands of Chicago’s South Side, Isoo is all ears, all eyes. In 20 minutes he sees – or hears – 34 species of birds. And just as he’s about to leave, the russet flash of an orchard oriole catches his eye. “That’s probably the most interesting bird I’ve seen,” he says, tapping No. 35 into his iPhone.

    The coronavirus shut down university labs, but outside the universities, citizen scientists have been hard at work – and in many places they’ve been busier than ever. EBird, a creation of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York, and since 2002

    Bird counts since 1900To grow and diversify 

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