Recently, I shared a series of my photographs of Saskatchewan birds with Dr. Alberto Yanosky, the biologist who heads BirdLife International affiliate, Guyra Paraguay.
The photos were to illustrate Dr. Yanosky’s article about his visit to Saskatchewan, the importance of protecting biodiversity and habitat, and the migratory birds shared by our two countries, Canada and Paraguay.
“We say that they decided to breed here, but they are our birds, that we lend them to you,” he explained when I met him in June.
“And you think that it is on the other side, that they are your birds, and they go south to avoid winter here.”
Shared birds. It continues to amaze me that our Prairie birds travel that far.
And what fun to receive an e-mailed copy of the July 2013 issue of Urutau Electrónico featuring the Alberto Yanosky / Shelley Banks collaboration!