<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Holistic Birding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Holistic Birding]]></description><link>https://www.holisticbirding.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:19:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.holisticbirding.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What Birds Bring to Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Veery, gifting me with his beautiful, ethereal song at the Bashakill. There are excellent ecological and economic reasons why birds are important to humans (which I will talk about in another post). But there is a more profound reason why we should all care about birds, and it has nothing to do with their “dollar” value. Simply put, it’s how they make us feel. To start, birds are beautiful and incredibly cool! But wait! There's more: birds are talented architects and entertaining performers...]]></description><link>https://www.holisticbirding.org/post/what-birds-bring-to-us</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d7a421646a4e908b712861</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:09:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/86d040_1696ab10afc14294b0f4d8afebe11312/1080p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Stella Miller</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How I Fell In Love With Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scarlet Tanager: One of the species I saw during my first birding outing. So… a little background on how I became enamored with birds. Let’s put it this way: my memoir is going to be titled “Talk Birdy to Me: How One Woman’s Life Was Changed by Birds.”  But I’m jumping ahead—let’s go back to the beginning of this journey. Believe it or not, I did not always respect birds. I’ve always been an animal lover—since I was five, when I wanted to marry Marlin Perkins and live in Africa. But I loved...]]></description><link>https://www.holisticbirding.org/post/how-i-fell-in-love-with-birds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c86d15be72f39f1f5c0a16</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:13:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/86d040_8976b4a2e3e048e680c169207507b1f6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_585,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Stella Miller</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>