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   | Ninety years of birdwatchers' notes going online
Submitted by urbananglernyc on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 09:27.
By Azadeh Ansari
More than 100 years ago, J.A. Loring had his eyes on the California sky and his hand on a pen. His hand-scribbled notes, along with those of 3,000 other "citizen scientists," can be found lining the drawers of green filing cabinets in the basement of a U.S. Geological Survey building in Laurel, Maryland. These note cards -- 6 million of them, spanning almost a century -- contain a trove of invaluable information that could help unravel the effects of climate change on bird behavior. "This is the longest and most comprehensive legacy data set on bird migration that we know to exist," said Jessica Zelt... To read more- CLICK HERE |
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