Birdwatching goes digital with active online community
Over the next 48 hours, Arcuri navigated the delights and perils of sharing a big find with the Very Online birding community, where rare bird alerts are pushed to mobile and geotagged on ebird within minutes.
For context, Scales says, you have to understand the twitch – a birder’s reactive sprint to see a bird reported by someone else. It refers to the shudders and jerks of a birder beside themselves with excitement, those fanatics willing to scale a wall or brave a hurricane warning for a once-in-a-lifetime sighting.
If this was going to be an “easy tick,” Scales said, “she would literally have hundreds of people trying to see it.”