Date: 4/26/24 8:01 am From: Jerry Davis <jwdavis...> Subject: Birds and Birders Responsibility
The company Temu is advertising on computers and online that they have hand crafted hummingbird nest boxes for sale. They also have nest boxes for hummingbirds with perches by the hole like you see in the comic strip cartoons. You have seen this and understand that hummingbirds do not nest in nest boxes. As a birder and responsible consumer you do not need to sit in apathy and indifference to this type of misinformation. You have a responsibility to the birds, birders, and information integrity to object and oppose such advertisements and sales regardless of what company is making false claims. My dialogue with the company they seem to be playing stupid and do not know what I am objecting too.
This kind of adjustment also goes for Walmart and other companies that sell nest boxes for wrens with a 7/8 inch hole for House Wrens and sell them in 30 states that do not have House Wrens. People buy them for themselves and as gifts and a Carolina Wren needs a 1 1/4 inch hole. To expect a Carolina Wren to use a hole for a House Wren is like expecting your Saint Bernard Dog to come through the cat door. You have a responsibility to call this to the store managers attention when you see it and not just grab your binoculars to get lost in the wilds looking for birds.
Jerry Wayne Davis
Hot Spring, AR
