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Modern day ‘bird seers’ track environmental health at longest running avian field station

IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The right combination of bird behaviors augured favorable conditions, but the wrong patterns spelled trouble. Today, spanning nearly 60 years, in partnership with the Point Reyes National Seashore within its southern border, generations of modern-day bird seers […]

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