Column: Project FeederWatch provides lots of simple, quick advice about backyard birds

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 16, 2022

I like to think I’ve gotten smarter, but maybe I’ve just gotten lazier. I’ve answered a lot of questions from readers about bird feeders over the years, often after doing time-consuming research. Nowadays I just go to feederwatch.org, another of the indispensable birding tools available from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The Cornell Lab has also given us eBird — a worldwide bird-listing database; Merlin — a bird identification app; and allaboutbirds.org — arguably, the best online information source about North American birds. At its core, Project FeederWatch is a citizen-science initiative that enables backyard birders to contribute their individual winter bird observations to a collective database. ~ Bob Duchesne