80 Each summer, Melanie Smith notices the small, brown birds that take up residence in her backyard in Talkeetna, Alaska. As the program director for the Bird Migration Explorer, a trained ornithologist and a lifelong birder, she knows that these creatures are Swainson’s thrushes. She learned that they migrate from as far as Argentina in the spring to spend the summer nesting near her home. National Audubon Society Maps the Wondrous Routes of Bird Migration “When you see birds in your backyard or out in your local park, it feels like they’re your birds,” Smith said. “But they’re many people’s birds. They go from community to community, and a lot of them are spending three-quarters of their time outside the United States.” Beginning in 2019, Smith and her colleagues at the National Audubon Society have been working with founding partners The Audubon Society tracks the movement of more than 450 bird species across the Americas.
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