Tag: asks

Bless this tumblr for a) having beautiful birbs and b) SHOWING THE SOURCES. You have no idea how many tumblrs just post whatever without a source omfg

thank you!!! i do my best (if you ever see a post without sources, let me know, i just forgot when posting it!), I think it’s important to include especially given that i sometimes use photos from small photographers/people who rely on their photos for an income.

I’m sorry you’re still getting crap about the good birds post. Those birds don’t know that they’re an invasive species; those birds are just birds and deserves love as much as any other. I feel that you can appreciate that individual birds are good in themselves AND the fact that certain species are invasive. At the end of the day every member of an invasive species is a living creature. Just be nice, y’know? They don’t deserve such hate.

it’s okay! i understand where people are coming from, i just think it’s a little misguided. i agree! nothing comes from treating individual birds badly; it does nothing to reverse the impacts caused by the species or remove them from places they have invaded. i’m not encouraging people to say, put out nest boxes for starlings and encourage them to breed, or do anything that encourages destructive behavior, but just having the decency to leave them alone would be nice.

thank u so much for ur info posts on the mbta and not releasing birds u cared for!! i’ve seen many instances of both leading to v bad situations when they didn’t mean any harm, so educating is rly valuable!

thank you so much, it’s really nice to have positive feedback! i hope it helps some people. i like to take the perspective that most of the time when people do harmful things, it’s out of ignorance or misinformation, not out of genuine malice. i think it’s super important to spread information about these kinds of things so people don’t make these mistakes!

thank you for defending all those good birds in that post everyone says has problematic birds. all birds are good in their own way.

haha no problem. i totally understand why people dislike them – it is upsetting that they impact native species in the way they do. but yeah, when it comes down to it, they have no ability to know the impact that they have – they’re just doing what birds do, and it’s not their fault they’re in the wrong place to do it.