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Jun. 2, 2021 - 400+ volunteers join UW bird behavior study
6/2/2021 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
How birds in the Pacific Northwest experienced the pandemic.
A community science effort asked hundreds of Northwest residents to keep tabs on birds, and they learned a lot about themselves in the process.
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Jun. 2, 2021 - 400+ volunteers join UW bird behavior study
6/2/2021 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
A community science effort asked hundreds of Northwest residents to keep tabs on birds, and they learned a lot about themselves in the process.
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From a picnic table at an inner bay park, Elaine Shuang has been staking out ospreys.
Particularly, a nesting pair, recently arrived from South America.
Shuang is part of a novel experiment called the Lockdown Birding Study.
It was launched by UW researchers during the early pandemic, to help understand how bird species in the Pacific Northwest were responding to changing human behavior and a changing environment.
Over 400 people observed birds for 10 minutes at least once a week, and entered sightings into a smartphone app.
One finding suggests that birds that share human spaces, like the American crow, moved elsewhere when businesses put out less trash.
Another discounted the assumption that bird sightings would increase with less traffic.
Instead, the study suggests the relationship of human mobility and birds is more complicated than previously thought.
I'm Starla Sampaco, find non-profit Northwest news every day on crosscut.com.
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