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I’ve become The Bird Guy to my friends and family. When they see a bird they don’t recognize, I’m asked to identify it with nothing more than a blurry photo. When the algorithms feed them bird-related ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Peter Krumhardt After the winter, it's always a joy to see songbirds return to our yards for the spring nesting season.

Chad Witko, an outreach biologist in Vernon, Vt., has been a birder since he was 3. His father was a waterfowl hunter and would bring birds home for him to examine. His mother helped him put homemade ...