Kickass and Bird Migration by Bill Stokes

Attribution: David Whelan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

By Bill Stokes

Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, forever attempting to establish their compatibility with the other creatures, woke up this morning of Sept. 23 with a strange sense of motion that they could not identify until they tuned in to the Cornell bird lab report and were informed that at this very moment, 76.2 million birds were in migratory flight across the US skies.

The fact that so many feathered dinosaur descendants already had the day so soundly off and running—flying, moved the keeper to question just where it was that he and his ilk parted ways with migration as an evolutionary winter survival technique?

Getting out long underwear and sweaters seems a contrived alternative.