tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post4886286510001891900..comments2024-03-29T07:16:09.835-05:00Comments on The Nature of Things: This week in birds - #263Dorothy Bordershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-4302537113549646212017-07-09T11:54:08.505-05:002017-07-09T11:54:08.505-05:00Yes, it is possible. It happens sometime in respon...Yes, it is possible. It happens sometime in response to weather events. For example, after Katrina interrupted the hummers' fall migration, I had literally hundreds of the little birds in my backyard. It was the most amazing thing.Dorothy Bordershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-2970436392968207012017-07-09T10:27:00.364-05:002017-07-09T10:27:00.364-05:00The other evening I saw what seemed to be an entir...The other evening I saw what seemed to be an entire flock of hummingbirds in one of my bushes. By the time I got close enough to investigate they were gone. I have never seen so many in one place. Do you think that is possible?Judy Kruegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11632346091869688862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-79142094000528522162017-07-08T14:55:09.141-05:002017-07-08T14:55:09.141-05:00The idea of bringing back extinct species is very ...The idea of bringing back extinct species is very controversial and I have mixed feelings about it, although if the effort were directed to bringing back a species that humans have caused to go extinct, e.g., the Passenger Pigeon, I would probably be on board for that.Dorothy Bordershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12441731296027227394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3560838335414244511.post-81635028984577282592017-07-08T12:33:09.550-05:002017-07-08T12:33:09.550-05:00I don't see the need to de-extinct a woolly ma...I don't see the need to de-extinct a woolly mammoth. There are so many things on Earth that scientists could focus on without paying attention to a vanity project such as that. I think that if the animal got extinct it was perhaps because nature didn't have a subsequent function for it. Why play God?Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242364668293349799noreply@blogger.com