That’s what lots of people have been screaming (well, metaphorically, anyway) as the Northern Hemisphere’s nesting season does a number on various projects and events.
- On the U.S. eastern seaboard, various varieties of birds have gotten in the way of pipeline plans, whereas on the West Coast, it’s landfill mowing that’s the problem
- Construction of a Chinese highway hit a red light after sightings of protected Rosy Starlings (like the ones above which Nate spotted several years ago in India)
- It’s got climbers grousing about Peregrine Falcons …
- … and beach towns coming up with creative solutions for wall-to-wall Purple Martins
- Even music festivals are getting into the act, relocating a Killdeer nest so that the show can go on with no harm to the mama and eggs
The lowly Red-winged Blackbirds in suburban New York triggered Meredith Mann's interest in birds. Five years later, she's explored some of the the USA's coolest hotspots, from Plum Island in Massachusetts to the Magic Hedge in Chicago to the deserts of Fallon, Nevada. She recently migrated from the Windy City (where she proudly served as a Chicago Bird Collision Monitor, rescuing migrants from skyscrapers and sidewalks) to Philadelphia, where she plans to find new editing and writing gigs; keep up her cool-finds chronicle, Blog5B; and discover which cheesesteak really is the best. And she will accept any and all invitations to bird Cape May, NJ.
Beat bird headline of all time. Seriously.
This is the best bird article headline I have ever seen. May I suggest for future posts: “99 problems but a Bird aint one” , or “Bird better have my money” (that second one may be tricky, but I believe in you.) Seriously, my day has been made by this. Thanks.