Each year volunteers participate in a holiday tradition — counting birds and recording their sightings. What? Counting birds? Who, me? In the winter? The National Audubon Society has successfully routed people out of their nice warm houses to bundle up and venture forth to count winter birds for more than 100 years. That’s nice, youResearch looks beyond symbiotic relationship between Clark’s nutcracker and whitebark pine trees to species’ reliance on broad habitat mosaic. One of Yellowstone National Park’s key gateway communities, Cody, is getting ready for the annual Spring into Yellowstone Wildlife Festival. A red-breasted chick perches on a motorcycle handlebar in Worland, Wyoming. (Mike Willard/Flickr – click to enlarge)