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Bird watching has been the surprising breakout hobby of COVID-19. Once heavily favoured by grey-haired, khaki-wearing retirees, it seems everyoneâs eyes are turning to the skies as we stick closer to home.
Feed sales are skyrocketing, binoculars are selling quickly, and punk rocker Paul Riss tattooed Latin names of 240 bird species on his body. Can the pastime transform the drearily similar days of a pandemic winter?
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âWinter is slim pickings, but thereâs definitely a lot of birds you can get to know well,â says Gavin McKinnon, a well known Calgary bird watcher and Grade 11 student, who is out several times a week looking for birds.