Ivory Billed Woodpecker Research Paper

Kelly, Joseph. The Seagull Reader - Stories. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008. 354-72. Print.

I really enjoyed this documentary because it made me realize just how lucky I am for the life I was given. It changed my perception of happiness in so many ways. It made me realize that I have more than I need to live a happy life. Other people around the world don’t have as nice of a house or even a house at all to live in and are so much happier than I am and that is something that sparked my attention. For example, the man who lives in India, Manoj Singh, he lives in what looks like poverty to me, but to him, he lives well. There are times where his family are only able to eat rice and he has no air conditioning in his home, but he still remains a very happy man. When he mentioned that there are times where his family only eats rice, it instantly made me feel awful because I have all the food in the world around me and I still take it for granted some days. I also take my family for granted at times. For instance, the man from Louisiana, his family and friends are what make him happy the most. He is simply grateful for them while

Every week, Oregonian Pat Johnston makes a 45-mile pilgrimage to Chehalem Mountain, she is on a serious mission. Her journey doesn't revolve around hiking, climbing, or mountain biking, however, she comes for the birds. During her weekly excursions, Johnston circles the mountain. Frequently stopping to check on the well-being of more than 30 bluebird nest boxes. And their

The Great Blue Heron is one of six species of Herons. Great Blue Herons live in fresh and saltwater marshes, isolated swamps or on islands and near lakes and ponds that have neighboring forests. During the summer they stay in parts of southern Canada and the Midwestern United States. During the winter they reside in Mexico. They migrate in groups of 3-100 in August to the southern coast of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, sometimes traveling as far as Panama.

* Seven banded chickadees made up the ‘Class of 1937’ including bird #65290. (December, pg. 94)

Can you imagine a world without any animals? Would plants overpopulate? How would we survive? Well, scientists estimate that about 150 to 200 species of plants, animals, birds, and fish become extinct every day. They say that species are disappearing at an alarming rate. Long-eared Owls are becoming even more threatened every day and everyday more habitats are lost. We need to help them gain their populations back again.

It says a lot about a country if it can relate more to a fake bird than anything else. In her essay “The Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History,” Jennifer Price indeed provides history on the plastic and live bird, but moreso than anything she argues the connection of the commercialized flamingo to the United States culture. The pink, plastic flamingo acts as a metaphor for the greedy and superficial ground America was built on, as well as learned idolization for the fake bird. By critiquing the pedestal by which the plastic flamingo was held on, viewing the history of the flamingo as the backdrop for greed and shady practices, and parsing through the image-focused society America was in the fifties the prestige by which the plastic flamingo was

Audubon speaks about the phenomenon in seemingly awestruck way, noting their power and magnitude while noting the birds’ formation as a natural wonder. A striking characteristic of his description is his

The ivory-charged woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is one of the biggest woodpeckers on the planet, at approximately 20 inches (51 cm) long and 30 inches (76 cm) in wingspan. It is local to the virgin woodlands of the Southeastern Joined States (alongside a different subspecies local to Cuba). In light of environment decimation and, to a lesser degree, chasing, its numbers have dwindled to the point where whether any remain is indeterminate, however reports have shown it has been seen again in the present century. No woodlands today can keep up an ivory-charged woodpecker populace.

At the bird’s appearance and apparent vocal articulation, he is at first impressed, then saddened. He compares this evening visitor as only another friend which will soon depart, just as “other friends have flown before” (58). But the raven again echoes quite aptly his one-word vocabulary, thus leading the man on to think more deeply about the possibilities that exist at this juncture. Somewhere deep inside him, he has realized that it doesn’t matter what question he poses, the bird will respond the same.

Probably the most notable use of birds occurs when after ten years, Sula returns to the Bottom accompanied by a “plague of robins”(89). The word plague indicates that the birds represent a wave of sickness that Sula brings alongside her. The citizens of the Bottom recognize the birds as a sign of evil, but choose to accept its wickedness rather than try to rid of the robins. “But they let it run it’s course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways to either alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again. So also were they with people” (90). Here, Morrison is comparing the townspeople’s feelings both towards the evilness of the robins and towards the evilness of Sula. They welcome Sula’s return to the Bottom the same way they they welcome the birds. Sula’s personal experiences with wickedness are also acknowledged through the robins as Sula

The American Flamingo is a large species of Flamingo closely related to the greater Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo. The flamingo is apart of the bird family which mean it lays eggs to give birth to another flamingo. American Flamingos take about three years to get their pink and red feathers. In the wild Flamingos spend most of the day feeding, preening, resting, and bathing. Their young feathers are much less structed and fluffy than adult plumage.

family who used to live there - two parents, and maybe three of four children, with nice

“There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of the stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in the sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove” (11). The very vivid descriptions of the birds, people, and nature gave a more creeped out feeling than

Furthermore, when they strike the homes of the gooney bird, they get a free pass. Neither chick nor parent has advanced to perceive the risk: they can observe uncomprehendingly as the youthful are eaten