Those little birdies won’t live for long.
Touchy-feely vs logic.
Article doesn’t say what kinds of birds they are or where they came from. Depending on that, releasing them may be condemning them to death.
I don’t think this is ‘heartwarming’ at all.
It is a thing in some places where you can buy a wild bird just for the thrill of letting it go.
A long time ago in church a story was told where we are like birds in a cage, and Christ opened the cage. But we won’t fly out.
There’s more but that’s all I remember.
kinda like the Asian kids selling birds to tourists
Must have watched The Sand Pebbles recently.
Start a business selling homing pigeons to people who set them free.
Come back the next day and I do it all again.
Save a dog, save a horse....a bird? Birds are dumb
I remember people buying quail and pheasant so they could turn them loose and blast them. Long ago.
I remember a story about an ornithologist named Eugene Schieffelin who wanted to release all birds mentioned in Shakespeare into the new world (per anecdote). One of them was the starling, which competed very strongly with the eastern bluebird for nesting sites and food to the degree that the numbers of bluebirds declined particularly near cities. Schieffelin was also responsible for introducing the house sparrow; now one needs to visit the woods to see native sparrow species like the chipping sparrow.
Some years ago I was living in a condo in Florida that had these huge plate glass windows going up 2 floors. Because they reflected the sky an occasional bird would fly into it and drop to the ground momentarily stunned. One day a cockatiel hit the glass and lay stunned on the ground. I took it inside and fed it waiting to see if it recovered ok. It stayed on my shoulder the whole time affectionately nuzzling me. After a couple of days I opened the window wide to see if it wanted to be free. The bird had no interest in returning outside and was obviously attached to people. A woman on my floor was interested in getting a bird so I gave it to her.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
For a great article on the keeping and releasing of birds, see:
https://www.dominicanajournal.org/st-thomas-and-the-keeping-of-pets/
by Fr. Bonaventure Chapman.
Sweet of him to feed all the hungry hawks like that. :)