Clipped Wings

17/06/2025 3 min

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Episode Synopsis

An aspect of bird life I greatly admire, besides the ability to take wing and view Earth from on high, is that they are free to explore wherever their hearts desire, bounded only by the food they prefer to ingest. If a bird chooses to expand their palette, they can dwell virtually unbounded. Some, like the Arctic Tern, use their freedom to round-trip close to 60 thousand miles every year, while the diminutive Bee Hummingbird, a native of Cuba, lives and dies in an area less than 150 square yards.