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Living Like a Bird

Live Life Simpler to Make the World a Better Place for Birds and Humans to Coexist

Birds and humans have the same basic needs to survive: food, water and shelter, but birds live simple, straightforward lives.

Humans go a bit overboard to fulfill their needs.

Springtime is a season full of transformations, so I decided it was
time to purge myself of all unnecessary things I had in my life and live
simpler like a bird

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Reducing Our Footprint

The many possessions we have possess us, and if we decide to pick up and migrate for the winter, it wouldn’t be very bird-like.

The Scarlet Tanager is a climate threatened bird that winters in tropical rain forest in lowlands just east of the Andes
Plus, by limiting the stuff you buy, many of which we don’t need,
reducing our footprint, limits the amount of packaging, garbage, other
waste that go into our landfills.

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Many of which never make it to the landfills, and instead are unleashed into nature.

I’m talking about plastic, plastic straws, strings, non-biodegradable
packaging, glass, and other items carelessly discarded by humans.

Things that become lethal to birds or other wildlife when ingested or
wrapped around their limbs and wings causing slow painful deaths.

Simple Things to Make the World Better for Birds

If living like a bird is something you can’t do right now, here are
12 simple things from Birdlife International you can do right now to
make the world a better place for birds.

Read the article at https://intobirds.com/living-l...

And please, let's all coexist!

About IntoBirds

IntoBirds is an online magazine, community, and educational resource for all
things birds and is based in Danbury, Connecticut, and Rosendale, New
York.

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