United in a near-silent search, the birdwatching crew trudges along with their custom binoculars and camera lenses the size of bazookas. They’ve managed to form a sort of community, now recognizing…
PALO ALTO — Perhaps a frightful storm or a faulty compass led the migratory bird awry, but one way or another, it ended up far from home, and alone. Feathers ruffled, the well-traveled vagabond plopped down for a snack in the one yard in town that was sure to turn it into a celebrity.
“The rarity is not only the event that made this bird get lost, but all of the other things that had to happen for somebody to notice it,” said Alvaro Jaramillo, a senior biologist at the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory and a world-renowned bird chaser. For the past week, the tricked-out turtle dove has been hanging out in Bradshaw’s backyard in midtown Palo Alto during the day and roosting by night in a nearby tree. The herd of birders, which grows larger by the day, migrates around the block from dawn to dusk, keeping its collective eyes peeled for any sign of the creature.
In fact, the birding community has grown so large and intertwined that it’s become a powerful force advancing global ecology research. The group’s cataloging efficiency was maximized by eBird, an application that allows users to count bird sightings and compete with friends — in other words, the Pokémon GO of birdwatching.
“It’s a big deal,” Jaramillo said. “I mean, it’ll go down as one of the top birds for a lot of people.” A species this rare is more than a tally on a digital sighting list to these birders. In many ways, their fervor best resembles the devoted spirit shared only by die-hard sports fans.
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