12324 I am the most well-traveled birder I know. In the past week alone, I have seen Torrent Ducks in the Urubamba River in Peru, watched an Ivory Gull fly over the ice floes in Nunavut, and witnessed a Black Kite alight on a perch in Queensland, Australia. I’ve watched tiny, endangered Cobb’s Wrens scatter under my feet on a beach in the Falkland Islands. I’ve seen condors soar in the Andes. I’ve been to all seven continents in the past seven days without getting a single immunization or enduring a moment of jetlag. I haven’t even left my chair. I am a Google Street View Birder. Google Street View is, of course, the massive collection of panoramic images displayed on Google Maps that permits the user to take a virtual trip down more than 10 million miles of mapped streets and trails across more than 80 countries. I did what I think most people did when they first learned of Google Street View in the late 2000s: I tried and failed to see myself standing in front...