Updated December 2023 Over 191,000 photographers, recordists, and eBirders from around the world have shared their media with the Macaulay Library to help power new technology and birding resources such as eBird’s Explore Species, Merlin Bird ID, All About Birds, and Birds of the World. Media from the following birders was selected to be featured to help…
William Young, a young birder from Pennsylvania, first came across Ted Parker’s name in Kenn Kauffman’s Kingbird Highway at age eight. Young was fascinated by Parker’s birding adventures and was amazed to discover that Ted Parker grew up in the same town—Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Not only are Parker and Young from the same town, but Young…
In 2018, scientists published 112 peer-reviewed papers using media from the Macaulay Library. Media in the Macaulay Library helped researchers discover a new species of grosbeak in the Amazon and helped us understand why birds-of-paradise not only have amazing plumage patterns, but dance moves and vocalizations as well. Researchers also used media in the Macaulay Library…
