Who Should Win?
by
James Bow
·
1 year ago
Our final match of round one pits the ever popular Monarch Butterfly against the American Woodcock.
Of the dozens of butterfly species we've observed at rare, the Monarch is perhaps the best known, famous for its multi-generational migration pattern that stretches 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico, and easily spotted with its distinctive wing patterns. And the Monarch's population has been disturbingly unsteady of late, due to climate change and habitat loss. Fortunately, people are stepping up, and you can too, by planting milkweed in your garden, and working to protect land that can give monarchs and other butterflies a refuge from urban development.
Its opponent, the American woodcock (also known as the timberdoodle) is a small bird found in forests and mixed agricultural-urban-forest lands in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, and are often seen as a harbinger of spring. While the species isn't threatened, its numbers have also seen a drop due to habitat loss. Clearly, both species need their space.
Let's work to give them their space, protecting natural refuges and making our spaces friendlier to these species and creatures like them, even as we send one of them home in this match-up to see which will be the last species to enter round two. Cast your votes below.
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