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A polar vortex (the brutal cold!) & a New Year 4-night stand at Carnegie Hall 10 years ago. A meandering acoustic journey through the past ~ Neil Young performing touching tributes to Bert Jansch (debut of Needle of Death, that Ambulance Blues emerged from) & Phil Ochs' Changes.
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A lot of birders on my TL have shared their solidarity with Palestine. And many more have not. Here’s what birding is like for Palestinians thanks to Israel’s illegal occupation. 🇵🇸 discourseblog.com/p/bird-of-…
ALT Screenshot of a Discourse blog on the Palestine Sunbird. Excerpt reads: Loving birds, like just about everything else, is not easy in Palestine. A poignant article in Mongabay profiles the struggles of a birder named Anton Khalilieh who lives in the occupied West Bank. The article notes that some of the best bird-watching spots in the West Bank are found in the illegal Israeli settlements, which are no-go areas for Palestinians. It also has this crushing paragraph: In places like the Wadi Qana Nature Reserve, a beautiful expanse of natural caves and springs in the West Bank, both Khalilieh and Quttainh said they love to bird watch but feel they have to tread carefully as Palestinians so as not to raise suspicions about what they are doing or veer into the settlements by accident. To be Palestinian is to have even bird-watching turn into something fraught and dangerous. Perhaps that is why the Palestine sunbird has taken on such resonance.
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While a section of the birding community still celebrate, lionise & excuse high-carbon emissions, let’s remember it’s destroying the planet, sends completely the wrong message to wider society, & is now out of step with public opinion #lowcarbonbirding
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My new book, Passions for Birds, just published. Discount code on the flyer attached! @essexsociology @WGeographies @EnvHistJournal
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This was painful to be part of. When the establishment lines up to protect itself, right becomes wrong, up becomes down, reason goes out of the window. What happened today was utterly appalling: the worst I've experienced on the JNC. I'll write more at some point. #USSmess
BREAKING: The Universities Superannuation Scheme Joint Negotiating Committee has today formally voted to implement cuts to future #pension benefits for tens of thousands of UK university sector staff.
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Hey, low-carbon birders... we've made the national press.
Incredible.
Well done @BirdingClimate
#lowcarbonbirding
You don’t need to travel long distances to spot birds, Britain’s twitchers urged theguardian.com/environment/…
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Half the tweets I've seen today have been about self-congratulatory year listing and megas, the other half have been about low carbon efforts and local patch work. There doesn't seem to be much appetite for the middle ground.
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Recent events highlighting the #ClimateEmergency are eliciting conflicting responses - quite keenly in birders perhaps - of denial, anger, shock, resentment & cognitive dissonance, but also, in many, realism & a determination to act. Keep at it.
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Low-carbon lifestyles are not a fad, pointless, "virtue signalling" nor just something for other people.
They are now a simple and brutal mathematical fact. We have left it too late for a smooth transition.
#lowcarbonbirding
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With the terrible recent events, I thought I would re-share this blog post that @sianmercer, @Lotty_ONeill, @stonechat_42, @emwright_7 and I wrote for @_BTO.
We discussed the barriers & issues women face in birding including safety and sexism.
Read here:bto.org/community/blog/where…
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Low-carbon birding is about helping to bring about a different birding culture, one that can be enjoyed by all—and not just a select few—in a liveable planet.
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No surprise that high-carbon birding became normalised in the last three decades. Time to slow down.
#lowcarbonbirding
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A thoughtful article, Dominic - unlike some of the comments below it, which are like peering into the ornithological version of the Daily Mail comments section. A careful, considered approach seems the way to go, exactly as you suggested in the article.
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Black Americans often face terrible daily dangers in outdoor spaces, where they are subjected to unwarranted suspicion, confrontation, and violence. The outdoors—and the joy of birds—should be safe and welcoming for all people. audubon.org/news/audubon-sta…
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Gearing up for another round of picketing, and looking forward to, yet feeling a tad apprehensive about, my teach out on the politics of bird(watch)ing (Quaker meeting house, 1pm).
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A great blog post about the problem with racism and homophobia in birding and why we should all be prepared to call it out when we see it.
Maybe stop tagging people like Lee Evans in your birding news tweets and just shut him and his disgusting attitudes out? – at Byker, England
Hel Hath No Birdies Blog Post: Racism and Bigotry in Birding - An Update. You will have seen numerous articles about the rise of the far right. It's happening in #birding too. It's time to #bantheberk #birdfair #racism #bigotry helhathnobirdies.blogspot.co…
