What I Found Interesting: April 16, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

A novel idea for moving over 9,000 books, ibises following their foster human parents on a migration journey from the Alps to Spain, and evidence suggesting how the Egyptian pyramids were really built are a few of the fascinating stories I’ve read and enjoyed over the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Great Backyard Bird Count 2025

Dull brown/red songbird with reddish crest, black face mask, and large red bill perches on a brown shrub branch.

Returning for its 28th year, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) kicks off this weekend for a four-day free and fun event to count and report details of birds.

From Friday, February 14, 2025 through Monday, February 17, 2025 thousands of people around the world will take as little as 15 minutes to notice birds around them and report them online.

The information shared by GBBC participants helps scientists better understand global bird populations.

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