When Songbirds Fall to Earth

Amid the abuses that humans perpetrate on birds, can we be worthy of their beauty and music, their force and grace.

A Canada Warbler grounded on Monhegan Island, Maine / © Josh Lincoln

ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT during the next couple of weeks, millions of songbirds will be migrating toward breeding grounds across the Northern Hemisphere. Along their way a portion of the songbirds will inevitably encounter some sort of natural adversity: here in North America it might be a s…