Aside from our all-nighters spent preparing the State of the Birds Report, another major project that’s been keeping us up late at night has been redesigning our All About Birds website. But the hard work by our Web team is drawing to a close, and we’re now barely more than two weeks away from launching [...]
April 21, 2009 – What is this bird flying over the top of this sentence? Why, it’s a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, recently arrived on our website and soon to become a familiar presence. To tell you a bit more about it, here’s Mary Guthrie, our director of marketing: This past week was big for us for [...]
Various staff members here at the Lab spent February and March pulling all-nighters to get ready for yesterday’s unveiling of the nation’s first comprehensive State of the Birds report (click on the video, above, for an overview). Along with scientists and staff at a dozen other conservation organizations, we’ve pulled together mountains of data on [...]
The Great Backyard Bird Count has been getting greater (in terms of participation) ever since it started more than a decade ago. When online checklist submissions closed on Sunday we were at a new all-time record of 93,402 checklists, with some paper checklists still to be counted. That’s an increase of about 8,000 checklists, or [...]
