What If All The Birds Disappeared?
6 min readJun 30, 2020
June 28th, 2030: 5:45 a.m.
The birdsong wakes me up a few minutes after sunrise and I lie in bed listening to the familiar two syllable whistle of a Northern Cardinal and the chatter of a house wren.
I imagine birds moving through the Yew tree that grows beside my bedroom window, the way they once did before the Trump administration ended the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA)…
