What a difference a year makes. I’m volunteering again this summer for the Virginia Working Landscapes, a project through the Smithsonian Institution that studies the importance of Eastern grasslands and their associated wildlife. My job is to identify and tabulate the grassland birds, and after a year of birding practice I’m feeling much more confident in my abilities to identify bird species by sight and sound. This year, one of my study sites transitioned from a monoculture of barley to […]

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