At 96, "Chan" as he is affectionately known, is training to go to Ecuador in February 2015 to do what he loves, watch birds. This was the information that was presented to me as we hiked out onto the bridge in the Pautuxent Wildlife Reserve where I made this first picture.

Jessica Zelt is also one not to shy away from a challenge, she undertook the digitization of more than six million handwritten and typed survey records.

Between them is more than 100 years of scientific research on the migratory patterns of breeding birds in North America.

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