Many installations also celebrate International Migratory Bird Day, which is May 13 this year, Eberly said. A lot of these events will have bird-banding demonstrations. They'll catch birds so people can see how a leg band is applied. This then shows one way scientists track bird populations. It changes their perspective and they will then start to look up and notice birds.
Birds are all around all the time.
People just take them for granted. I want to get people to start looking up at that bird and say, 'I know what you do now. I know where you travel. They're a good indicator of the overall health of an ecosystem, she said. If the birds start to die off, we've got a problem.