New York City's Jamaica Bay seems an unlikely haven for wildlife, sandwiched between John F. Kennedy International Airport and Coney Island. But when you're an American woodcock that's just flown up from Florida with plans to summer in the Northeast, the bay makes a pretty good place to rest your wings and pick up a mate, maybe even lay an egg or two.
Birdwatching used to be seen as the ultimate geeky pastime. But combine it with new online technologies and it can reveal new truths about how our world is stitched together.