Duck. Not the bird in this case and not ducking the coronavirus, but Duck, North Carolina, where I took a break from my first year of medical school and fled to the Outer Banks to celebrate the first Earth Day. 50 years ago today. That was before most of us had heard of climate change, and existential threats were not so global as they now seem. That was before we had lost 1 out of every 4 birds on earth - not “just” species disappearing, but a huge decline in the total global bird population. We are in the middle of spring migrations when new arrivals turn up every day, but weather radar tells of a 14% decline in total bird migration. Of course with a pandemic threatening human survival, it may be hard for some to think about birds. And the pervasive health and economic challenges are impossible to ignore - thank you, thank you to those, mostly health care workers, at the front lines. But, what better time to understand the connectivity of things. Not the digital connections upon which we have all become too dependent or the supply chains of the global economy. I mean the connectedness of nature and the immutable laws that underlie it. And the stewardship demands that humans can either exercise or ignore. Let’s think of spending a little bit of our time appreciating the vulnerability of birds and its connection to our own vulnerability and that of every other living thing on the planet. And then doing some little thing to help….