Colombia is home to the most species of birds known to ornithologists. Merlin, an app, is helping to build an “avian tourism” ...

I first discovered Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab of Ornithology earlier this summer, when I was trying to figure out the identity of a particular bird of prey in my neighborhood. After looking at a ...

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Other than cars, the thing I hear most often at home is birds. I live in Southern California, in a relatively suburban neighborhood, outside of an even more metropolitan downtown. I don’t get the ...

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Birdwatchers Samantha Giraldo and Bibiana Acevedo look for birds in Los Guácharos nature preserve in Jardín, Colombia, May 9, 2026. — Esteban Vanegas/The New York Times Samantha Giraldo, 21, was at ...

Samantha Giraldo, 21, was at her family’s home in Colombia last Christmas when an email from a birding enthusiast in India, half a world away, arrived. Merlin and eBird, the world’s most widely used ...