BackgroundOr for a long time, I thought that my colleagues and me -improving worried were the only ones for whom the birds forced the life of living. Birds with obvious enthusiasm, brought to my life, were like a medicine, and, possibly, the instigator of the social awkwardness of my teenagers. But then in my stormy 20s, when everyone who I knew seemed to worry about some painful, emotional turmoil, it dawned on me that birds could be of strong importance outside the poultry panels.
Once I got a rise with a friend who really fought. When it accelerated along the streets of the inner city, sobbing uncontrollably, everything began to resemble this scene from the vanilla sky, when Cameron Diaz will take Tom Cruise from the bridge. I convinced her to stop, and we parked under some trees. When I was sitting, ignorant about how to weaken her disaster, the honey honey core laid down and began to jump in front of us in search of insects.
Watching how this cute little bird is engaged in its business, was a toack that needed us. It is completely indifferent to our troubles, this connected us with anything big, setting our problems in the future and brought a magical sense of surprise to just be alive. I don’t assure me so much that the appearance of one bird was an instant cure, but its presence brought the moment of peace and peace that which was confused hopelessness.
Recent studies have shown that this experience is not unique. Bird game in the hospital was shown reduce levels of both more pain and anxiety in patients as well as a reduction in medium time spent before discharge from the parish. A 2020 European study He showed that the presence of 14 extra bird species in your area increases the general levels of happiness, equivalent to the same increase that people will receive if they begin to earn $ 150 a week more.
A Australian bird of the year Voting is a perfectly stupid reflection of this meaning that birds bring into our lives. Even his artificial competitiveness simply adds to delight.
Birds mean so many different things for different people, so the choice of 50 candidates for voting this year has become for me and my colleague in Birdlife Australia. I had to put aside my personal preferences, a my hero bird, a white honey core, did not even make a list. Ultimately, we have chosen birds that, as we thought, most people either know about such as the laughter of Kukurra and the Australian Magpie, or the species, which, in our opinion, people deserve to know.
Birds, such as charming fabulous paint. Imagine what you are doing Settled dynamics The Seamull version and put on it a black cap with a bright -yellow account, and you got a fabulous tone. As if they are not cute enough, fabulous paint is the inventor of the dance choosing fish! Michael Paylin must have been inspired by watching the courtship ritual, where male fairy -tale paint represents a woman with a small fish and carefully spits it in the face before presenting it to her. If she eats fish, then this is a game, and they will begin to build and scratch in the sand for their nest.
This This nesting strategy that is subject to themThe field since they prefer to nest on the same beaches that we love, like our summer playgrounds, without adequate protection, any violation of birds of the chickens. Adults are forced to disconnect from the nest so often that the mortality of the chickens passes through the roof, since the naked small puffborates either bake, freeze, or are removed by predators, such as silver seagulls or a separate cat, which destroyed a whole nesting colony near ManduraField
Or birds, like a magnificent red, bird, so rare that when I managed to see it only once. It was such an exciting meeting that I was still trembling from the memory of how in his powerful presence. Now Australian is the rarest predatory bird. After it was found in the south, as in Sydney, Red Goshav is now limited to a small amount of multiplying steam in the remote north from the ongoing cleaning of the forests for which they rely.
If I have to vote for one bird, it will probably be the Regent Honeyeater, an impressive forest-bird, decorated with a black and white chain picture through the chest, with the most radiant yellow, distilled Australian sun-sprayed in its wings and tail. This is a bird so exposed to the loss of habitat that Young men lose their courtship song From the fact that they have so few remaining adults.
While Twitchers, perhaps, they knew about the existence of Regent Honeyater, until in 2017 a poll “Bird of the Year” began, it is unlikely that anyone had made it yet. Today There are entire communities Working with Birdlife Australia and members of the national restoration team in order to try to return your song back to the landscape.
This is what I am most worried about Berda of the year. This is not only the joyful celebration of birds that save us, but also with a united cry, so that we work more diligent to save them. Let the games begin!
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Sean Duli is an Australian writer, an environment and a bird observer. He is the editor of the Australian magazine Birdlife, author of Big Twitch
