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Backyard birds: Annual count uses citizen scientists to take snapshots of U.S. populations

MESA – Verdins. Red-tailed hawks. Hummingbirds. Quail. Roadrunners. Lesser goldfinches. These are just a few of the birds Lisa Ullman sees when she looks over the backyard of her home in Mesa. Ullman, a former special education teacher, and her family planted native plants in 2017. By the next year, when the plants started to […]