Citizen Science
The Second Breeding Bird Atlas of Pennsylvania
After five years of fieldwork by 2,100 volunteers, the second Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas is in print. Marius Doyle reads it slowly.
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Field Reports
An October Afternoon on the North Lookout at Hawk Mountain
Twelve hundred broad-winged hawks in ninety minutes, and the volunteer counter who has called the species since 1991.
Songs
Dawn Chorus in a Pennsylvania Beech Wood
Jasper Wynn spent four mornings in May at a 32-acre stand of mature beech and tulip poplar in Centre County, Pennsylvania, recording the assembly of voices that begins twenty-eight minutes before sunrise and finishes, mostly, by six fifteen.