I LOVE BIRDS! My partner and I are avid birders. We have the honor of teaching at a summer camp for 11 & 12 year olds every summer. It is an Audubon ecology camp and it is a powerful thing to help inspire kids to get out in nature and away from TV and computers.
In our travels, we find it odd that many habitats that we visit are missing bird species that we would expect to see. We also participate in the annual Christmas Bird Count and year after year we log which birds we see in specific locations. The numbers of many species are WAY DOWN. Many birds such as the Red Headed Woodpecker and Bobwhite Quail have almost vanished here in our area, they used to be fairly common in the right habitat.
The loss of many species of birds, bees, frogs and other creatures is largely due to Climate Change. Scientists have shown this to be a fact. I think that birds (and frogs & bees) are the CANARY IN THE COAL MINE. They are much more sensitive to environmental changes than we humans are.
Coal miners, traditionally...would bring a cage with a canary into the mines. If the canary died they knew it was time to get out of the mine because the air was tainted and lethal.
We need to heed the loss of these beings and realize they are giving us a WARNING.
Sincerely,
One Worried Mom
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