“Anything that serves as a potential roadblock for younger, diverse birders to join the flock is something that I’m against,” he says.
A salmonellosis outbreak isn’t a dealbreaker for backyard birders, but it is a call to ensure we take whatever steps we can to keep our feathered friends safe.
Avoid scaring birds away, both for their sake and for other birders.
Essentially, this means that birders can keep tabs on one another.
That means people in the area could pick up on four times as many calls, helping to explain why birders noticed an increase in birdsong.
It is hard now, some seventy years later, to appreciate how revolutionary this small green book was for the budding birder.
But a birder understands that the swift flight of a rare breed trumps all.