Birds Are Indicators Of The Environment. If

The Other Creatures With Which We Share This World Have Their Rights Too, But Not Speaking Our Language, They Have No Voice, No Vote; It Is Our Moral Duty To Take Care Of Them.

Birds, It Must Be Admitted, Are The Most Exciting And Most Deserving Of The Vertebrates; They Are Perhaps The Best Entre Into The Study Of Natural History, And A Very Good Wedge Into Conservation Awareness.

Birding, After All, Is Just A Game. Going Beyond That Is What Is Important.

I Can Recognize The Calls Of Practically Every Bird In North America. There Are Some In Africa I Don't Know, Though

More Birds Have Adapted To A Changing World Than Have Failed. Very Few Have The Narrow Tolerance Of The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Or The Bachman's Warbler.