“Once you get to know birds and come to adore them, you want to see them healthy and thriving,” writes Clarissa Casper.
With Utah’s rapidly changing and unpredictable climate, it is important that we start giving more consideration to our avian neighbors.
With Utah’s rapidly changing and unpredictable climate, now — more than ever — it is important that we start giving more consideration to our avian neighbors. One way to do this is by volunteering for one of the many organizations, like Bridgerland, that support citizen science initiatives to track and count birds all over our state. Then, as you get to know birds, you become attached to their well-being and the habitats they call home.
But you don’t have to travel far to have a realization like this. Whitaker said he tries to introduce the activity of birding to his students in his “Reading and Writing the Environment” course through taking them on a birding expedition on campus during class.
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