Posted on 10/13/2023 6:19:52 PM PDT by rey
“ How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices”
On a recent afternoon in L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, Christian Benitez and Eric M. Wood stood outside a corner liquor store searching for birds.
The researchers spotted a house sparrow and pulled binoculars to their eyes. “They’re all over the shrubbery in Boyle Heights,” said Wood, an associate professor of ecology at Cal State Los Angeles.
Among the most ubiquitous and abundant songbirds in the world, house sparrows are urban creatures that thrive where people do. They’re resilient, adaptable and aggressive, and are found around buildings and streets, scavenging food crumbs or nesting in roof tiles.
But less than 10 miles to the northeast, in the wealthy city of San Marino, house sparrows were nowhere to be heard.
Instead of the sparrows, ravens, common pigeons and a Cooper’s hawk the bird watchers spotted in Boyle Heights, the manicured lawns and mature trees of San Marino bristled with a very different assortment of birds.
“There goes a band-tailed pigeon right over there,” Wood exclaimed, turning his attention from a red-tailed hawk. They also recognized acorn woodpeckers, a California towhee, dozens of turkey vultures circling overhead, a dark-eyed junco, a mockingbird, an Anna’s hummingbird and a black phoebe.
It was, the researchers said, a vivid illustration of the so-called luxury effect — the phenomenon by which wealthier, and typically whiter, areas attract a larger and more diverse population of birds.
“That huge difference in wealth, separated by only a few miles, really surprised me when I first moved here,” said Wood, who is from Santa Rosa, in the Bay Area.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“ Otherwise, urban wildlife — in our case, birds — will likely continue to be as segregated as a city’s population.”
From the article.
Pigeon reparations! Honestly I’m convinced these simpletons get aroused when they come up with something new to be outraged about
Is this real?
What they waste money on. Wow.
This is the very acme of imbecility.
Birds have wings. They can fly where they want.
It never ends. The demand for racism long ago outstripped the supply.
He’s obviously never had to go manno-a-manno with the Wild Turkeys in Downtown Minneapolis. They’re all over and get mean.
Use to be lots of yardbird in Souf Central… now they’re all fighting gallos! Orale!
I am very ashamed.
DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THE ROBINS I was raised around.
You'd be amazed at what you can find cheap on Craigslist.
What’s racist about using empirical data to identify the deadbeats?
A western liberal may be defined as being someone who is possessed by a sneaking suspicion that somehow, somewhere, someone may not be convinced that everyone everywhere in traditional society is driven by hate, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, who are be denigrated as homophobic, transphobic, gynophobic, Islamophobic, and as ignorant deniers that Climate Change is such a danger as to warrant draconian restrictions by the Left, And which propaganda must be magnified in order to for the Left to justify themselves the Left as saviors of the oppressed and endangered, while they actually promote fornication, abortion, racism etc. Thus fostering wokephobia.
Whiter? San Marino has a large Chinese population.
Okay. I’ve read the entire article. Memorized it, actually.
And I think Wendy Addams, Lurch, and the rest summarize it the best.
https://youtu.be/D6KdeXrL0rE?si=QaZjU1cTym5qungq
(Go ahead and click on the link. You know you want to.)
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