Research found that participants who were expert bird watchers showed “differences in both brain structure and brain activity.”

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    25 days ago

    It’s not about birds, go spend time in nature paying attention to similar things and categorizing them and you’ll get the same benefits.

    It’s exercising the brain while getting fresh air and physical exercise

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      Could also be “has free time and no stress in life” factor that correlates with watching birds. But being in nature and doing activities that involve the brain is probably good anyway

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        Tons of birdwatchers just watch the birds around their own neighborhood, and it costs very little to go to a park.

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      I kind of do this but it’s just simply keeping my eyes out for any edibles along trails, would be nice to have more variety outside of hazelnuts and a few berries

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      No, the goal of Huffpost is for all of us to stop criticizing their journalistic ethics and go be thoughtless bird watchers. Go now or the fury of Clinton/Harris corporate donors will be upon you!