Robyn Bailey from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on Citizen Science

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world contribute bird observations to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology each year, providing data on a scale once unimaginable. Scientists use these data to reveal how birds are affected by habitat loss, pollution, disease, climate, and other environmental changes. NestWatch, the Lab’s citizen-science project on nesting birds, has been monitoring nesting birds’ reproductive success since the 1960s. This long-term database is the nation’s richest source of information on avian reproductive biology. Project Leader, Robyn Bailey, was joined by Ted Alvarez from Crosscut in Seattle in a discussion about current research, education, and communication initiatives for NestWatch. Learn about small things we can all do to help birds every day. This event was held on April 13, 2020, online.