Volumes I, II, and III of For the Birds: The Birdsong Project are streaming now to benefit Audubon’s bird conservation mission and celebrate the joy of birds.
By Elizabeth Gray and Randall Poster
This summer, the hummingbird in your backyard may have returned after spending the winter on Mexico’s Pacific slope, and the warbler in your neighborhood park could be visiting you from its winter retreat in the Andes Mountains.
Humans instinctively understand that birds are both musicians and messengers. Our cultures (songs, literature, parables, visual art, dance, holidays, sports mascots and idioms) rely heavily on birds and what they represent to us, from the sacredness of eagles in many Native American cultures to the poems of Toni Morrison.
Photo: Bald Eagle. Photo: Lori Rothstein/Audubon Photography Awards
