Jade has been birding since she was 10, when being sick and stuck inside for a month made her curious about the birds singing outside her window. Now she’s studying environmental science and doing bird surveys in college, discovering new species every time she goes outside. Her goal with participating in Birdathon is to teach her parents about all the cool birds that come out in the spring, and hopefully get some awesome photos. She knows about 60 species so far, but would like to double that through Birdathon.
Birdathon helps NVBA to support outdoor education, citizen science, habitat conservation and programs to encourage people to plant native plants and protect native wildlife. Birdathon also helps ornithologists better understand spring migration by reporting sightings through eBird, an online database of bird observations run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
