Sunday, November 24, 2013

Today, I wrote this blog post solely in honor of this bird:

This guy was found by my dad on a cold winter afternoon. He was lying on the sidewalk, shivering and taking his last breaths. He had crashed into the glass wall of a building and he was going to die. His beak was crooked from hitting the glass wall with such force and his bones were probably mostly broken. And then my dad picked him up and brought him home and put him in a shoebox. He gave the bird a drop of water and made him comfortable in the box.
Two hours later, he died in the box.
We have taken in two other birds who had injuries from crashing into buildings before, and only one of them survived. And I have seen tons of other half-eaten, rotting bodies of birds near glass buildings before.
All I have to say is, this shouldn't happen. No creature deserves to die in the way that this bird, and many other ones like him, did.
So I think we should have a moment of silence for this bird, and other ones like him.











There.


Thank you.