‘I had no one to bird with who wasn’t 20 years older than me’: Meet the Gen Zers who transformed grandma’s hobby into an analog craze
Reported by Fortune · fortune.com · August 23, 2026
“Bird watching, I think, used to be sort of a very, very niche thing, and now it is a cool thing,” eBird director Christopher Wood told Fortune. “They put their phone away completely.”
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