Nebraska Bird Partnership

I am NOT your typical birder. Most birdwatchers don’t have a job like I do, where I get to travel a lot to different parts of the state, work with landowners across southwest Nebraska and occasionally even get paid to do bird surveys. I am a lucky man.

But that’s just one way that I am not a typical birder. I am always birding; just can’t stop. I am birding when I am driving or riding down a highway, while I am at a football game, at the mall, at a track meet, coaching youth baseball, hunting, fishing, etc. It is always on – even when I am having conversations with friends, families, landowners, hunters, fishermen, etc. And most of it, for much of the year, is “by ear” where I hear most of the birds I report each day.

Read the full article from This Month on the Chicken Dance Trail.