This year, New Jersey Audubon’s 2021 World Series of Birding, “Special Edition II,” will include teams and participants from 19 states along the Atlantic Flyway. Teams are invited to form in New Jersey as well as Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The counts along the flyway on May 8 will give a better picture of what birds are where on the day of the contest.

This is the 38th year in a row for the World Series of Birding, which raises money through a one-day frantic birding…