I agree.
If our agricultural system were not fixated on annual row crops and mono
cultures, I suppose bird behavior would change.
I hope there is research underway examining how birds interact with
regenerative agriculture, permaculture farms and carefully managed grazing.
There are
I get particularly incensed with the rationale for killing blackbirds. It is
intended to reduce blackbird depredation on grain in the next fall. Killing
birds in winter on an area where they gather from many directions has an
unknown and perhaps little impact on the population eating grain next
Hi all,
Just a reminder...
I'll be leading a Cayuga Bird Club field trip this coming Saturday, 9/21.
We'll meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at 7:30 am and finish up by noon
at the latest. Migration is well underway and there are mixed flocks of
migrants around which I hope to
Birders number in the millions. If we became active as birders—many of us are
involved in various activist organizations—we could make a big difference.
Regi
What good is a house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it in? Henry
David Thoreau
> On Sep 20, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Linda
Perhaps it’s only because friends and family know me and know of my passion for
justice for all beings and it is that which is driving the multiple forwards to
me, but it does feel that this horrible news in this blunt and data driven
report has awakened many to realities we all try to avoid.
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