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Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird Illuminates Global Bird Populations

By Jacqueline Froelich

Published March 7, 2023 at 1:18 PM CST

Cornell Lab of Ornithology eBird visual designer Taylor Long stands on a trail in Sequoyah Woods in Fayetteville.

Taylor Long, visual designer for the popular website called eBird, housed at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, explains how the richly illustrated free to use real-time database enables both amateur birders and scientists to share critical observations about Earth's bird distribution and abundance.

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