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It's migration time, so no surprise that Twitterers are leaving the bird site and heading for greener pastures. #birdsite #Mastodon #migration
In related news, have you ever mapped your life via your best encounters with birds? Here's my latest Substack work, Memoir in a Handful of Birds: https://jasonanthony.substack.com/p/memoir-in-a-handful-of-birds
From my latest post, Memoir in a Handful of Birds:
"As someone had suggested, we knelt as we got close, and this deference prompted the Emperor to investigate us. He lifted his bill to trumpet something which may have been approval or interrogation. We were in the throne room of an exotic kingdom without a translator, though, so we were silent, content to observe from a few feet away this strange life."
https://jasonanthony.substack.com/p/memoir-in-a-handful-of-birds
It's not often we get a glimpse of the geologic future, but already plastiglomerate stones are turning up on shorelines around the globe.
Plastiglomerate is what it sounds like: a new type of stone, infused with plastic. Our flood of plastic waste is entering Earth’s sedimentary layer.
Pollution has reached geology.
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-disturbing-remote-island-plastic.html
It's time we took action to reduce our noise in the oceans. So much of what we do acoustically at sea is incredibly harmful, and much of it is unnecessary. Who needs seismic airguns to scout for new oil and gas reserves? Military sonar should be restricted wherever possible. Shipping noise can be quieted a number of ways. Read more at my three-part series, Quieting the Anthropocene Seas: https://jasonanthony.substack.com/p/quieting-the-anthropocene-seas.
Marine Traffic helps you imagine the noise from the average 60,000 ships at sea:
