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You can help scientists better understand birds
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You can help scientists better understand birds

Ornithologists are seeking volunteers in California, Oregon and Washington for Project Phoenix, a multiyear research project exploring birds’ response to wildfire.

Tom Carroll. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
Corinne Purtill.
By Tom Carroll and Corinne Purtill
No previous bird-watching experience is necessary — in fact, newcomers are often better than veteran birders at noticing common species. Tom Carroll sat down with reporter Corinne Purtill to learn more.
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Tom Carroll

Tom Carroll is a content creator for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2022, he created, produced and hosted the web series “Tom Explores Los Angeles.” He has produced stories for NPR and Gimlet. A fourth-generation Southern Californian, he is a graduate of Occidental College and the University of Southern California.

Corinne Purtill

Corinne Purtill is a science and medicine reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her writing on science and human behavior has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Time Magazine, the BBC and elsewhere. Before joining The Times, she worked as the senior London correspondent for GlobalPost (now PRI) and as a reporter and assignment editor at the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. She is a native of Southern California and a graduate of Stanford University.

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