Birding: Your actions can make it a better world for birds
From keeping cats indoors to avoiding pesticides in your yard, individual efforts can make a big collective impact in the conservation of birds and nature.
By HERB WILSON
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As Earth Day approaches each year – this year, it’s on April 22 – I devote a column to ways we can conserve nature and birds in particular. Habitat preservation and protection is critically important, so charitable giving to organizations with broad reach – The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club and the Xerces Society – money well spent. In Maine, the Natural Research Council of Maine and dozens of conservation land trusts work on more local scales. They need our support as well.
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Most kids are probably still feeling plenty of winter, but it’s a different story for migrating birds. As winter starts to transition to spring across the United States, warmer temperatures bring the return of many migratory species. And stealthy kids who keep their eyes on feeders, open water, coastlines, city parks, and other green spaces can get a sneak peek of what’s to come.
As birds’ incredible sensory systems start detecting subtle changes in the length of the days as well as the temperature, they’ll start migrating back from their southern homes in search of better feeding and breeding opportunities, says Andrew Farnsworth, a senior research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and bird migration expert.