Edmonton-made app makes it easier for citizen scientists to count birds

Edmonton-made app makes it easier for citizen scientists to count birds

Edmonton-based Punchcard Systems has developed NatureCounts, an app that makes counting birds easier for citizen scientists and helps enhance conservation data collection in the process. "Birds, and the migratory patterns of birds, and how birds interact with our ecology, is actually a bit of, we'll say, a 'canary (in the coal mine)' when it comes to things like climate change," Sam Jenkins, managing partner at Punchcard Systems, told Taproot. T…