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Everything in the New World was bigger.
Americans are indebted to the robin. In their dying, they led to the knowledge of the dangers of massive spraying of pesticides. Rachel Carson, author of “Silent Spring,” observed dying robins under the great elms on the Mall in Washington. She determined that these birds had been poisoned by eat-, ing earthworms that had ingested soil contaminated by decomposing elm leaves.
Lethal chemicals were sprayed on the great trees in the futile effort to stop the spread of the introduced and dreaded Dutch Elm Disease. From that, she went on to other frightening discoveries. The result was “Silent Spring,” the book that alerted Americans to the danger of using massive doses of chemicals that were seriously damaging our environment and, eventually, causing serious health concerns for us.
An American ecologist, Dr. Eugene Odum, once wrote: “Ecological relations are not more complex than man thinks, they are more complex than man can think.” Robins quivering in death throes on the ground under great elm trees illuminates that statement.
Like our brave ancestors, the robin has adjusted to a new world. Healthy lawns provide fine habitats for earthworms. A robin, stopping after a short run across the lawn, is looking for signs of earthworm movement. After detecting this with quick
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