{"id":715,"date":"2022-08-25T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=715"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:11:05","slug":"how-to-count-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/how-to-count-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Count Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/How-to-count-birds-landscape.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/How-to-count-birds-landscape.png 1000w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/How-to-count-birds-landscape-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/How-to-count-birds-landscape-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jer Thorp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 8th, 2015, a team in Ecuador identified 431 species of birds &#8211; the world record for number counted in a single day. Earlier that year in Myanmar, a scientist counted one Jerdon&#8217;s babbler, the first in nearly eight decades. In December of 2019, eBird announced that its database held over 737 million bird observations. This morning, in Brooklyn Bridge park, I counted 38 house sparrows, 4 black-and-white warblers and an ovenbird. This course will consider birding as a practice, and will dive deep into the processes by which observations become data. As a collective, we will investigate how crowd-sourced data is transforming ornithology, and will explore ways to tell stories about the natural world through visualization and more radical forms of data representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 8th, 2015, a team in Ecuador identified 431 species of birds &#8211; the world record for number counted in a single day. Earlier that year in Myanmar, a scientist counted one Jerdon&#8217;s babbler, the first in nearly eight decades. In December of 2019, eBird announced that its database held over 737 million bird observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-tier-2-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}