A song and a chirp: How blind birders tell a robin from a wren
Maitreya Shah heard the bird's distinctive chirp in a nearby tree at a botanical garden in the Maryland suburbs. But he's blind and couldn't see it. With his arm stretched upward, he held his iPhone up to try to capture the sound as an app identified the bird.
'It's a cedar waxwing,' the 27-year-old told his fellow blind birders as they walked on a paved path surrounded by grass and flowers at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland.
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