Nonprofit launches Eastern Kentucky birding ‘hotspots’ to encourage bird documentation
The Kentucky Natural Lands Trust is installing signs at birding hotspots in Eastern Kentucky using a $10,000 grant. The initiative encourages the public to document bird species through a mobile app supported by Cornell University. This project aims to support land conservation through data collection.
A land conservation nonprofit in Kentucky is using grant funding to add signs near birding “hotspots” in Eastern Kentucky that people can use to document birds through an app supported by an ornithology lab at Cornell University. The Kentucky Natural Lands Trust is using part of a $10,000 grant from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology […]
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