By Rupi Mangat
Above: Grey crowned cranes in Lake Nakuru National Park. Copyright Rupi Mangat
Published; The East African Nation media 23-29 May 2020
the big birding effort on May 9 2020
At the stroke of midnight on 9 May, more than 50,000 bird watchers from across the globe took to the outdoors for the next 24 hours to log in birds on their eBbird app https://ebird.org/globalbigday, birds that were seen or just heard by them. An extraordinary turnout given that much of the world was under some form of lockdown!

