Kids and Bird Language: How to trick get young people into paying attention to bird language So how do we get people (young people especially) motivated to pay attention to bird language when: 1. there’s absolutely no real survival consequences if they don’t, and 2. the social cost / benefit ratio of knowing stuff aboutContinueContinue reading “How to trick young people into paying attention to bird language”
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The Dawn Chorus
It was nearing dawn, hideously early unless you’re going fishing or leaving the country on dubious political grounds. The colossal din of a gazillion bird voices muscled its way in through the window above my head, filling the room with such manic avian boisterousness that it completely dashed any hope of a sleep-in. So insteadContinueContinue reading “The Dawn Chorus”