Social Media (Twitter)

This quarter we're using Twitter to help us engage in the most recent information about researches done about animal species that need help. By following animal related organizations, researchers, and people who are also interested in the same topic, we were able to be more familiar with our topics.

This is one of the best tweets I've sent. It is an article about crows. It talks about how crows, especially New Caledonian Crows, are smarter than we think. It provides me with the general idea and helped me decide the main topic for my essay.

This is another one of my best tweets. In this tweet, I shared information about a research article I focused on. The observation of the experiment is so unique, that the crow being the test subject dropped a feather and tried to trigger the trap door. This is uncommon and abnormal, that it can possibly suggest that crows have a highly intelligent mind, that they are trying to figure out how trap doors can be triggered instead of just getting the food in front of them.

The two organizations I found that are working with issues related to crows are Audubon and BirdLife. They are both international organizations which focus on saving wild birds by protecting their natural habitats, and working with government or protesting for reduce pollution and prevent climate change.

This tweet is about Audubon. The organization provides map that shows impacts of climate change to natural habitats of wild birds. This cite about American Crows shows that the impact of climate change result in their loss of habitat in Western America.

This tweet is about BirdLife. The organization provides map that shows flyways of migratory birds. It can more directly show the habitat areas of bird species, and the potential threats that they are facing that are caused by human activity.

This tweet shows one of the problems crows are facing, which is hunting. Since crows are seen to be pest animals, it is legal to hunt them in USA. This website is built by a crow hunting organization. The members of them are mocking on messages that criticize their activities and they just don't care about crow's lives.

This tweet shows another problem that crows face, which is discrimination by human. A "murder" is used only to describe crowd of crows. Besides, since crows eat rotten meat, their appearance is black and evil, and they sound creepy, they are often seen as representations of death and disease in many cultures. People kill them and destroy their nests just because of cultural discrimination.

This tweet shows one of the solutions we have right now to give crows some rights they deserve. Massachusetts passed a State law that regulates bird hunting days. Although hunting events cannot be completely stopped because crows are pest birds, they still tried their best to restrict days of a week that hunters can hunt crows legally.

This tweet is about a possible solution that can be done in the future to prevent habitat loss of wild birds due to climate change. Audubon is planning on building more bird-friendly buildings, which are artificial habitats for wild birds to build nests on. We might not be able to stop climate change, but we can build more infrastructures for birds to make up the part that they lost because of us.

Here is my infographic about crows. In the infographic, I introduced that crows are one of the smartest birds existing. They face problems that they are being legally slaughtered each year by hunters, and that their habitats are losing because of the increasing global temperature. I also included two possible solutions, which are law regulations restricting hunting season, and building more bird friendly infrastructures.

If you want to know more about my Social Media Campaign, here is a webpage of my day-to-day plan:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aztGiB__f1Qq_o-YooKW6anuM0KT5J_kwJxBO13R2i4/edit?usp=sharing