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124 - The Birds We’ve Wrongly Decided Are Villains
A hawk at the feeder gets hate comments. A crow doing something clever gets called creepy. A circling vulture gets treated like an omen. In this episode, I make the case that none of these birds are villains — they’re doing jobs the ecosystem genuinely needs, and the “enemy bird” story we tell ourselves says a lot more about us than it does about them.
Cooper’s Hawks: Quality Control, Not Cruelty
Built for tight turns through backyard clutter, Cooper’s hawks aren’t wiping out songbird populations — they’re mostly catching the sick, slow, and distracted ones, which keeps the rest of the…
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