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May 12, 2020

Cool Story about World Series of Birding

On NJ Spotlight, Jon Hurdle writes about how birding's biggest day adapted to the pandemic.

Here's the beginning:

"The World Series of Birding has not been destroyed or diminished by the coronavirus — it has instead morphed into a bigger, more inclusive annual event.

"The renowned birding competition, which for 37 years has attracted some of the world’s top birders to see or hear the most species in New Jersey over a 24-hour period at the height of the spring migration, was faced with a fundamental question when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March: to simply cancel this year’s event, or radically reinvent itself."

The article is here.