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A personal search for a threatened songbird Fallon explains her fight against the Decline of the Cerulean Warbler
Katie Fallon and the Cerulean Warbler A bird in hand illustrates the warbler’s size By Carol Ballard Warren County Report Years ago miners kept a bird near where they were working because a bird
is a lot more sensitive to dangerous gases. A very small quickly-vanishing migratory songbird may literally be the parakeet in the mine for us. A Neo-tropical migratory songbird
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called the Cerulean Warbler, or Dendroice Cerulea was the subject of a talk given April 11 at Samuels Public Library by nature writer Katie Fallon. She explained that she became obsessed with the bird after attending an Audubon lecture on the Warbler, “If you are a birder, you know how it feels,” she said, to sympathetic laughter from the audience, made up of “birders”, conservationists and wildlife supporters. “I like birds, and ‘bird’ was my first word as a child,” she said. She said that when someone suggested she write a book, she did. Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird, is the result. Their habitat is being threatened by some mining, logging and South American farming practices. The birds spend the spring and summer on the east coast of the U.S. mostly in the West Virginia Appalachians, and migrate across the Gulf of Mexico to South America for the winter. And although their number is declining at an alarming rate and more quickly than others, they aren’t on the endangered list. The political reason for keeping the Warbler off the endangered list is, according
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to Fish and Wildlife “because there are still 300 to 400,000” and this even though their numbers have dropped three percent since 1966. “They’re still not endangered enough,” said Katie. So why is there concern about their diminishing numbers?
Katie explained that if we think about the ways we’re linked with the species that share our world, everything is connected in ways similar to the Jenga game in which wooden pieces are stacked into a tower and some carefully pulled out. “If you pull enough pieces out, they will fall,’ she said. And on the Shenandoah National Parks website, it says, “The Cerulean Warbler is important to the ecosystem because they eat insects which can be considered as forest pests. The main threat to the survival of the Cerulean Warbler is from habitat degradation and forest fragmentation as the human population increases and land-uses change.” “When they take out a few trees, the birds respond well. In nature trees can fall down. The birds don’t mind a trail or a road or if single trees are cut and there are still some clusters of trees, but if the trees are clear cut, we won’t have a forest bird,” said Katie, to more audience laughter. The tiny bird has recently been seen and heard in forested areas in Harmony Hollow out near the Northern Virginia Regional 4-H Center. Sandy Wilson, who lives there and calls
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