The dust bowl was from 1930-1936. It is an area of land that has been lost and reduced to dust. Specifically this is talking about Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas where soil erosion caused bad wind storms causing people to move.
The best thing for a beginning birder is to know You don't have to be able to travel a continently around to find bird.Two is To know that the goal is not to see who can find more birds it about participants in this event work together to help bird experts get a good idea of how birds are doing. Hope this helps ;)
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