Why the Bird House?
Does having and maintaining a bird house have any importance in your world? Let’s go back a big and examine our assumptions.
In the early 1990s someone did the math on the population explosion and figured that if all the people on earth stood about shoulder to shoulder and front to back, comfortably close but without touching, every man, woman, and child on earth could fit in a space slightly larger than the land area of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Even if that math is radically off, certainly the people-space of earth is not larger than one state, say even Texas.
Intellectually we know that this is true. There are VAST areas of earth’s land mass which house no humans at all.
But even if our concept of the population explosion completely erroneous, there are parts of that concept that remain true. People tend to congregate in areas where there is plentiful water, good growing ground, and hospitable climates.
And so do birds.
As the human population overwhelms these climates, we decimate and overwhelm bird habitat at every corner. And the birds, driven by migratory habit and survival codebooks written, perhaps, into their very DNA, are hard-pressed to accommodate man’s infiltration of their environment. If we want them to survive, we must provide a niche in our personal surroundings for their continued existence. Thus the Bird House.
Birds need the same things that most life requires, clean air, water, food, and shelter. There are other more specific needs, but those will do to begin with.
So it is our hope that as we find our human comfort zones on earth, we always attempt to make space and a healthy living zone for the birds.
Why not add a bird house to your environment today . . .
October 18 2008 04:02 pm | bird house and bird houses and birdhouse
June 15th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Very interesting. It’s occurred to me that the best ground for us is also the best ground for the animals. Birds are often forgotten. It’s nice to see someone put things into perspective for those who don’t really think about our impact on wildlife. This little lighthouse birdhouse (mandaslighthousebirdhouse.totalwarehouse.com)is one way that people can put a bit of decor in their yard and provide shelter to birds. The other nice thing about birdhouses is that it gives people a chance to watch them. I wasn’t much of a birdwatcher until one of my family members had a bird house and then I found it interesting to watch them. I want to thank you for this interesting information!!