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When I was a child, my Aunt Nellie had canaries; I would visit and sit and watch them for hours, fascinated by their feathers, their song, and their “birdness.” As an adult, I went on safari in Kenya to see the animals, but fell in love all over again with birds. The amazing colors, their beautiful songs, their bravery in defending their young, and, especially, the fact that they can fly.
Like other people who’ve commented, I live in a city and birds are often the only animals I get to see on a regular basis. I am a birder and really love all birds (including chickens and turkeys, who have personalities all their own!), but urban birds like pigeons and gulls hold a special place for me because I’m able to observe them all the time. Animals deserve our respect and getting to know individual birds has helped me to realize that!
Birds are just awesome.
Living in an urban environment I don’t see a lot of wildlife, but I see birds every day. Even the unpopular pigeons outside my window have brightened my days as I’ve seen them raise two pairs of chicks. Who ever sees baby pigeons? But there they were, squawking for the attention of their parents right outside my window. The parent pigeons, incidentally, have been together now for 2 years. It’s been interesting watching them.
Birds are a big part of making the earth survive.
Birds reconnected us to nature and to people. We used to spend our weekends apart, he on the computer, I reading. We had no friends and thought we didn’t need any. The birds got us back into the parks, and birding connected us to people, wonderful people. We’re having the time of our lives.