The effort to count North Carolina’s overwintering and breeding birds has come to an end, now researchers are going through the data. Over the course of five years, 3,525 volunteers spent 234,495 hours counting birds in every corner of the state. That’s the equivalent of nearly 10,000 days of volunteers scouring the state for courting and nesting birds, from remote riversides to crowded parks to sandy beaches. Now, researchers are going through the data to see what it can tell us about the birds that call our state home.  “We are extremely grateful for every single birder who traveled across the state, including extremely rural areas, to count birds,” North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Science Support Coordinator Scott Anderson said.…