This week in birds - #646
A roundup of the week's news of birds and the environment : The ʻAlalā, or Hawaiian Crow, is the American Bird Conservancy's Bird of the Week . Sadly, this bird has effectively been extirpated in the wild but an effort is being made to bring it back. That will be a decades-long process and its success is in no way guaranteed, but we can hope... *~*~*~* So, the idea of a border wall between the United States and Mexico is on the table again and is just as stupid and destructive to the environment as ever. *~*~*~* In other terrible news for the environment, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing that pollution limits be revoked . What will the nation's environment look like after four years of this? *~*~*~* The bane of my childhood summers were the little red bugs known as chiggers. They are still out there, burrowing into the skin of another generation and making life miserable for their victims. *~*~*~* The world's supply of water is ...