![]() ![]() They chalked up their NOB’s to bad weather, bad timing, bad luck.īut the 3 Billion Bird report suggested something much more serious. It’s the birdwatching equivalent of getting skunked. Sometimes spending up to six months a year on the road in pursuit of sightings, Anders said, “We had a lot of NOB’s. ![]() In 2018, they had launched a website, “ Flying Lessons,” where they touched on avian news, shared photos and videos and blogged about what was to be learned from watching red-shouldered hawks, cedar waxwings, summer tanagers or any of 900 other species that have been recorded on this continent. ![]() ![]() In recent years, the couple had bought a travel trailer and begun visiting places historically known as hangouts for non-migratory species or as popular stopovers for birds making twice-annual treks. The Gyllenhaals, like tens of thousands of other birders, had seen the effects of the decline, though no one had so accurately and shockingly quantified it. Bird health generally is seen as a marker for the health of whole ecosystems if birds aren’t thriving, the system is in trouble. ![]()
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