Environment Report: A Conversation with San Diego’s ‘Bird Wizard’

Environment Report: A Conversation with San Diego’s ‘Bird Wizard’

Phil Unitt can tell you which bird is flying overhead anywhere in San Diego just using his ears.  Half a century working at the San Diego Natural History Museum will do that to a man. Unitt began volunteering for the museum at age 17 and never left, eventually earning the department’s top role as curator of birds and mammals and chair of ornithology.  He has a message for generations choosing smartphone over their brain: Your AI-powered birdsong…