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Thank you for bringing up this topic, Clare. I enjoy birding and I'd love to have a field in Ornithology someday. I have noticed many drastic changes int the normal bird's migration routine. Birds are amazing in of itself and have many capabilities, but we, as humans, are in their habitat and need to help them along their journey. After all, they were here before us.
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https://ebird.org/home
However, I find it cumbersome to use. I want to say on my first visit to America, I saw X bird along the road, and the site wants to know what road, what spot, what date and was I near a birder site. No idea to any of those, so I seem to be unable to start a list.
The scientists would say my data is no use to them without substantial observations, but then the site is no use to me.
Especially, the big birds like cranes are staying in Israel where they can find food. As birds eat crop-destroying insects, and carry nutrients from northern lands to the south in their droppings and bodies, the birds should really be seen as an asset on the move.
https://www.ecowatch.com/migratory-bi...
A few years ago I read an interview with a man whose family industry had long been trekking across the Sahara with his camels, taking salt and goods from and to Timbuktu and other isolated towns. He said he now had to drive trucks as the camels which in his father's day had crossed the desert, now could not manage it; the desert had grown too wide for them.
If anyone doubts this, the Sahara could comfortably fit all of Australia or all the contiguous US. Too large for birds to overfly without a pit stop anymore.