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The challenge: Monitoring birds is essential to help protect them, but tracking the health of the world's 10,000 bird species is an immense challenge for scientists.

The cause: To understand how birds are faring, scientists need hundreds of thousands of people to report what they are seeing in backyards, neighborhoods and wild places around the world. Without this information, scientists lack timely data to show where and when birds are thriving or declining.

Use your smartphone to help birds: Use the free Merlin Bird ID app to identify birds, and share what you see with the eBird app anytime, anywhere. When shared with eBird, your bird sightings provide valuable information to show scientists where and how they should focus their research and conservation efforts.

Take it further: Join a local birding project like Project FeederWatch, a Christmas Bird Count, or a Breeding Bird Survey to record your observations. Are you an educator? Teach your students about monitoring migratory birds with Follow That Bird! — a science and technology unit on tracking birds: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/migratory-...

Get started today: Download eBird (http://ebird.org/home) or find a monitoring project that matches your interests.

Spread the word: Share your latest eBird entry — bonus points for migratory species! #LiveBirdFriendly

Audio recordings by Jay McGowan, Matthew D. Medler, Walter A. Thurber, and Wil Hershberger provided by the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.