May 19, 2021 12:20 PM EDT
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA - MAY 15: A Purple Gallinule wades through the Wakodahatchee Wetlands on May 15, 2021 in Delray Beach, Florida.
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The idea of counting all the wild birds in the world sounds as impossible as counting every single strand on a person s head. However, as computing technology gets more advanced, so does data accuracy.
Thus, it is why the research group behind popular bird watching site eBird have boldly proclaimed that planet Earth currently has around 50 billion birds living in the wild today. This was the result of over two decades of managing one of the internet s most popular bird watching platforms and opens the door to using the same approach when monitoring populations of other species.
Perú inicia este 19 de mayo promoción internacional desplegando su gran potencial turístico
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Perú se corona campeón mundial en observación de aves
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Global Big Day 2021: Perú se corona campeón mundial en observación de aves
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Birds Tell Us to Act on Climate
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It was pouring rain in Bogotá, Colombia, last Monday when Liliana Marcela Ospina Sanchez first thought about protesting this year’s Global Big Day, when birders across the world tally their sightings on the eBird platform. Ospina, a business owner and ecotourism guide, was doom scrolling through social media. The hashtag #SOSColombia was trending.
Since April 28, local NGOs and citizens have used social media to document widespread police violence during a national strike. Tens of thousands of people took to the street to demonstrate against a controversial tax reform bill that opponents said would disproportionately affect the poorest people in a country whose economy has been decimated by COVID-19. The tax reform that sparked the demonstrations was withdrawn on May 2, but the demonstrations continued, as the country faces high