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Birding or birdwatching is the hobby observing birds. It can also be a form of "citizen science", as when enthusiastic amateur birders create lists of birds they observe in a given interval and at a given location and upload them to sites like eBird.
ctompkins on ebird's abundance measure
Wikipedia: Audubon - The Birds of America
Birding with Bill Oddie Cape May 1999
Prince George's County, Maryland
Rock Creek Park--Maintenance Yard
Environmental problems that affect birds invariably affect us. As the expression has it, they are canaries in the coal mine. Consider, for example, the effects of microplastics on birds, as described in this NYT editorial.
Mark O'Connell - Our Way of Life Is Poisoning Us