The Washington Post – Some are in your neighborhood…”We know this because of eBird, the crowdsourced database of bird observations managed by the Cornell Lab. eBird is to older bird databases roughly what Wikipedia is to Encyclopaedia Britannica — instead of depending on the observations of a relatively small group of trusted experts, eBird uses the internet to aggregate the observations of the entire birding world…“When you have people across the world going out and looking for birds and submitting their data online, this is where we really get the power to understand how birds are responding to landscape scale issues like climate change,” Brooke Bateman, the director of climate science at the National Audubon Society, told me…”