Where do migratory birds have their home?
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ysabetwordsmithWhere do migratory birds have their home?
Below are just three screenshots from a series of 16 photos on the Instagram account of somadifusa (Laura Ortiz), of murals she and the tattoo artist Azul Luna (Instagram account azulunailustra) painted in Bogota, Colombia.
I'm captivated by these images both of traveling swallows, some bearing backpacks and baskets, some with shells on their back like hermit crabs, and of hearts that are also nests, or that morph into shells, or sprout flowers and eyes. "Home is where the heart is," or the heart makes the home.
Migration is normal. Humans have just been weird about it for the past few centuries or millennia as some of them settled down. It's not just about the Americas, though. Africa has a saying: "Cattle grow trees, elephants grow grass." Historically the cattle farmers would follow far enough behind the elephant herds to capitalize on the flush of grass. Meanwhile the elephants would eat the trees springing up where previous cattle herds had stripped off the grass. It was a very large circuit but it worked.
Below are just three screenshots from a series of 16 photos on the Instagram account of somadifusa (Laura Ortiz), of murals she and the tattoo artist Azul Luna (Instagram account azulunailustra) painted in Bogota, Colombia.
I'm captivated by these images both of traveling swallows, some bearing backpacks and baskets, some with shells on their back like hermit crabs, and of hearts that are also nests, or that morph into shells, or sprout flowers and eyes. "Home is where the heart is," or the heart makes the home.
Migration is normal. Humans have just been weird about it for the past few centuries or millennia as some of them settled down. It's not just about the Americas, though. Africa has a saying: "Cattle grow trees, elephants grow grass." Historically the cattle farmers would follow far enough behind the elephant herds to capitalize on the flush of grass. Meanwhile the elephants would eat the trees springing up where previous cattle herds had stripped off the grass. It was a very large circuit but it worked.
