A Field Guide for the Entire 21st Century
A new project reveals not just where birds live now—but where they’ll live decades from now.
I’m not a particular fan of birds, but I like the eastern goldfinch. I know one fact about it. At some point in elementary school, probably during a 20-minute “nature walk” on an overgrown farm near home, a counselor-type adult instructed about a dozen of us: “The eastern goldfinch is the state bird of New Jersey.” I don’t think an eastern goldfinch was even there that day, but it stuck nonetheless: The eastern goldfinch is the state bird of New Jersey.I have since grown up and moved
