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Blog: Round Robin

• An Index to Our Updated Species Accounts
    We’re steadily working to improve the offerings in our All About Birds online species guide. It’s our goal to eventually feature detailed ID information, photos, natural history, cool facts, sound recordings, and videos for all 700+ birds that live in North America. Right now we have basic information for some 580 species, and we’re [...]
• Have you heard the top five species in the Great Backyard Bird Count?
  Well, now you can! Click here to download the songs of the top 5 species in last year’s Great Backyard Bird Count! The 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count starts this Friday and lasts through Monday, February 20. It’s a great opportunity to have some fun, enjoy a winter day, and put your bird watching [...]
• Cornell Lab director talks GBBC on Bird Calls Radio [listen now!]
  Update: You can now listen to the archive of this broadcast at Bird Calls Radio It’s a week before the start of the 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, or GBBC for short. If you’re new to the count, or just want to hear more about how and why it’s done, tune in to Bird [...]
• Lost Bird Project: One artist’s meeting with Audubon’s $8 million tome
  When the gavel fell last week at the auction of John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America” the price for the rare first edition was almost $8 million—the third highest sum ever paid at auction for a book. But what a book! Its phenomenal size and heft simply doesn’t come through in photos, but the 435 [...]