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		<title>El misterio del crepúsculo: las aves y la agricultura sustentable</title>
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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241208_232156422-1024x768.jpg" alt="El sol se va detrás del Cerro Islá." class="wp-image-4679" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241208_232156422-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241208_232156422-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241208_232156422-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241208_232156422-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241208_232156422.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">El sol se va detrás del Cerro Islá.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8e85c5803a5258048c5bc81dc5de4e32 wp-block-paragraph">Un silbido simple, ascendiendo al final, fácil de imitar. Es la hora cuando la luz se va, convirtiendo los árboles en siluetas, y el azul se va desapareciendo del Cerro Islá. Un silbido simple que nunca he escuchado, sólo en grabaciones. Los meses de estudiar cristalizan en este instante y voy casi corriendo, el silbido llamándome adelante, pasando la milpa y los nopales, la carambola y el cempasúchil, el campo querido del abuelo Teo, pasando los mangos, entrando en la selva. Los grillos son la voz de la noche inminente, este silbido el misterio del crepúsculo.&nbsp;</p>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-1024x768.jpg" alt="The garden of grandfather Teo." class="wp-image-4764" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">La diversidad de los cultivos del abuelo Teo.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d502645c4eb207b333614f640df265ee wp-block-paragraph">El misterio es esto: ¿por qué cada día aquí es diferente? ¿Por qué la tierra nos da tantos chances, tantos guías para aprender? La voz de cada ave nos cuenta su historia, su relación con la tierra viva. El brote de cada planta es un universo en espera—y todos nos esperan; ¿qué vamos a hacer? Aprendemos la magia humilde de la milpa, de miles de generaciones de manos cuidando el maíz y el frijol, la calabaza y el chile, la leña y el abono, el cacao y la guanábana, para que nuestras huellas sean campos de flores y selvas donde el tinamú canelo (<em>Crypturellus cinnamomeus</em>) da su silbido simple al anochecer?</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Los fantasmas de las aves</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-1024x768.jpg" alt="Un granero se derrumba entre campos extensos de trigo, Montana, EU." class="wp-image-4680" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Un granero se derrumba entre campos extensos de trigo, Montana, EU.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-32a59753daa1814538a891dea6406ff7 wp-block-paragraph">O ¿destripamos la tierra, que la comida venga sólo del supermercado, que venga con los fantasmas de las aves y los escarabajos que vivían donde un solo cultivo a máquina gatea hasta el horizonte? </p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a8384660895b2de155642f1dd47dcfc7 wp-block-paragraph">No es ninguna pregunta retórica. La agricultura mecanizada sigue creciendo a través del planeta, <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9982">el impulso más fuerte de las pérdidas de biodiversidad</a> (a pesar del cambio climático, otra amenaza en aumento). La agricultura industrial es un sistema enorme y eficiente, difícil de cambiar, tanto para agricultores como para consumidores. Eficiente para despedirnos de las selvas, milpas, insectos, tinamús, eficiente para vendernos sabritas y golosinas, diabetes y cáncer, para perder la milpa y la conexión con la tierra. Pero no es inevitable. Cada milpa, cada cafetal en la sombra de la selva intacta, cada intento hacia una relación sana con la tierra nos abre otra posibilidad.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Prácticas ancestrales</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="719" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20230709_143050712-1024x719.jpg" alt="El arándano silvestre (Vaccinium globulare)." class="wp-image-4721" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20230709_143050712-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20230709_143050712-300x211.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20230709_143050712-768x540.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20230709_143050712.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">El arándano silvestre (Vaccinium globulare).</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0d45516709308624f26dbd121af7117a wp-block-paragraph">Estas prácticas las tenemos todos en nuestra línea ancestral. Aquí en México, <a href="https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/diversidad/sistemas-productivos/milpa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">el sistema de la milpa</a> es una de ellas. Por las tierras donde yo nací en las montañas y valles del noroeste de Estados Unidos, son las tradiciones indígenas, cuidando el hábitat para el salmón, la tuya gigante, la <em>camassia</em> y el arándano. Supongo que por alguna parte de mis raíces europeas ha de haber una tradición de cuidar las frutas, porque siempre me han fascinado. Mi mamá tiene recuerdos lindos de cortar frambuesas con su abuelita Jessie como niña.</p>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="655" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-1024x655.jpg" alt="Apple and cherry trees in my dad's orchard, cerca 2011." class="wp-image-4765" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-300x192.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-768x492.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Manzanos y cerezos en la huerta de mi papá, cerca 2011.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0c6ad2383a152a0114a732f6baab3bf2 wp-block-paragraph">En mi juventud, yo iba a pizcar arándanos silvestres con mi papá. Antes de que él falleciera, lo llevé a observar las polillas noctuidos polinizando las flores de los cerezos en su huerta, una huerta de árboles frutales viejos sin pesticidas donde los carpinteros nuca roja (<em>Sphyrapicus nuchalis</em>) hacían huecos en los troncos para chupar la savia y los picamaderos norteamericanos (<em>Dryocopus pileatus</em>) visitaban en el otoño para alimentarse de manzanas. Había suficientes para compartir. Deshidratábamos manzanas, ciruelas y cerezas y yo crecí con antojo de esta fruta deshidratada. No me interesaban mucho las golosinas del supermercado, porque la fruta deshidratada de la huerta sabía mucho mejor.</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5c2990b235237afac06598f289160a87 wp-block-paragraph">Todas estas tradiciones y muchas más nos ofrecen otro camino adelante, junto con las aves, plantas y hongos—un camino que nos dé comida sana y a los animales les dé el hábitat para prosperar.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">El tinamú, el halcón selvático y los tecolotes</h3>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-295eaaef1f7c0f6f735bc04f0ae61b70 wp-block-paragraph">El tinamú canelo, que aquí se le conoce como la jolina, sigue cantando. La tierra nos da tantos chances, y la voz de cada ave cuenta su historia. El abuelo Teo me dice que había codornices, pero desaparecieron. Puede que fue por más uso de insecticidas en la zona, dice. Sigo buscando sus cantos en los anocheceres. Quizás un día las vaya a encontrar, como el tinamú canelo que silba ahora desde la selva cerca del Río Sal, esta ave escurridiza de la vegetación densa. Es como una gallina, pero no rasca. Usa su pico para buscar semillas, escarabajos y frutas caídas y anida en el suelo durante la primavera caliente y el verano lluvioso.</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-61bbd225f6f2bcc25edff7d4fb69381f wp-block-paragraph">Junto con el tinamú, ¿escuchas este grito nasal? Ya se acercó más. Es el halcón selvático de collar (<em>Micrastur semitorquatus</em>), cazador de aves y ardillas, que se esconde en la selva y anida en los huecos de la caoba (<em>Swietenia macrophylla</em>) y otros árboles grandes. Y ya empieza el tecolote sapo (<em>Megascops guatemalae</em>) con su trino nocturno, este tecolote insectívoro que caza chapulines y escarabajos al borde de los cultivos.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">El misterio del crepúsculo</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-1024x768.jpg" alt="La silueta de un mango se ve contra el brillo final de la puesta del sol." class="wp-image-4681" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">La silueta de un mango se ve contra el brillo final de la puesta del sol.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b65ff8fae3d3aa96475dfa332d8d9b7 wp-block-paragraph">En la distancia ulula el búho café (<em>Strix virgata</em>), más grande que el tecolote. También come muchos insectos por la orilla del bosque. Los chotacabras pauraque (<em>Nyctidromus albicollis</em>) han emergido de los arbustos densos donde pasaban el día. Puedo verlos en la oscuridad cada vez más profunda, posándose en la arcilla del camino. Revolotean bajo la creciente de la luna, cazando escarabajos, polillas y otros insectos voladores. A veces escucho sus llamadas líquidas y su canto <em>¡pajíu!</em>&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">La pregunta</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-1024x768.jpg" alt="La silueta del Cerro Islá en la noche." class="wp-image-4682" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">La silueta del Cerro Islá en la noche.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3345cbb6ac72b20b086d9a7535b918b6 wp-block-paragraph">Las luciérnagas están destellando sobre las sombras de la milpa. Cúmulos de estrellas quedan suspendidos sobre la silueta protectora del Cerro Islá. Hace rato que dejó de silbar el tinamú canelo, pero sé que está ahí, en la hojarasca de la selva. El tecolote sapo sigue cantando.&nbsp;</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-af2ae60c915d7e021b84a12197809ddf wp-block-paragraph">La tierra nos da tantos chances para aprender; la voz de cada ave nos cuenta su historia. La milpa nos muestra cómo podemos vivir con campos de flores y selvas diversas, y todos nos esperan. ¿Qué vamos a hacer?</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2a237c7ac6b7bf0fd91c475b3d8ff5c7 wp-block-paragraph"><em>Nota: Esta historia sobre las aves nocturnas de la Costa de Oaxaca, México alude a la importancia de la biodiversidad de insectos y la integridad de los ecosistemas para las aves, y para la vida en general. Es un tema que he tocado en otras historias (como las que siguen las referencias por abajo) y que lo voy a seguir desarrollando el próximo mes con una historia desde Montana, EU sobre los tecolotes, las polillas y un proyecto que está documentando la diversidad e importancia de estos insectos voladores.&nbsp;¡Hasta entonces!</em></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Leer más</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="966" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-1024x966.jpeg" alt="Picking coffee in a shade-grown coffee farm within native forest, Pluma Hidalgo, Oaxaca, January 2024. Photo by Carito Cordero. Shade-grown coffee farms like Finca La Huerta are another example of a way we can grow crops while also providing excellent habitat for wildlife." class="wp-image-4802" style="width:auto;height:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-1024x966.jpeg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-300x283.jpeg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-768x725.jpeg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23.jpeg 1203w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Pizcando café por Finca La Huerta, Pluma Hidalgo, Oaxaca, enero de 2024, una finca donde el café se cultiva en la sombra de la selva nativa. Foto por Carito Cordero. Cultivos de café en la sombra de la selva nos dan otro ejemplo de cómo podemos hacer cultivos y a la vez mantener un hábitat excelente para la vida silvestre.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ea657c0246b8ba9907641563acc9e5c1 wp-block-paragraph">Billerman, S.M., B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald y T. S. Schulenberg (editores) (2022). <strong>Birds of the World</strong>. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, EU. <a href="https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e871f3946268cec8a1b1958f8f2958c5 wp-block-paragraph">Hingtgen, L. (2014, 11 de diciembre). <strong>Review: The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food</strong>. <em>Edge Effects. </em><a href="https://edgeeffects.net/third-plate/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://edgeeffects.net/third-plate/</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b634f6832061f76f8818e905cc5435b9 wp-block-paragraph">Jaureguiberry, P. et al. (2022). <strong>The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss</strong>. <em>Science Advances </em>8:45. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9982" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9982</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a1381e2fbd13c8d5e5c025c34301fe72 wp-block-paragraph">Lozada Aranda, M. y A. Ponce Mendoza. (2016). <strong>La milpa</strong>. Biodiversidad Mexicana. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Cd. de México, México. <a href="https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/diversidad/sistemas-productivos/milpa">https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/diversidad/sistemas-productivos/milpa</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fe213bfceb27b7def721fa2627286bf4 wp-block-paragraph">Milne, L. (2023). <strong>Losing Ty</strong>. <em>Great Plains Quarterly</em> 43:4. <a href="https://www.lornamilne.com/losing-ty" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.lornamilne.com/losing-ty</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-db9a378c6c250e33f4490d6d557b0141 wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://wildwithnature.com/2024/06/01/golondrinas-bicolores-montana/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Las golondrinas bicolores de Montana: revirtiendo un declive</strong></a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-898085269091e1fb7107f1718cc192e5 wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://wildwithnature.com/2022/06/03/moscas-para-el-almuerzo/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Moscas para el almuerzo: adoptando la perspectiva de un ave</strong></a></p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7f9ec16f5a8e4fb5c7d50cafe044a8b4 wp-block-paragraph">A simple whistle, ascending at the end, easy to imitate. It&#8217;s the hour when the light departs, converting the trees into silhouettes, and the evening blue leaves the slopes of the Cerro Islá. A simple whistle that I&#8217;ve never heard before, only in recordings. The months of study crystallize in an instant and I&#8217;m almost running, the whistle calling me onwards, passing the <em>milpa</em> and the <em>nopales</em>, the starfruit and the <em>cempasúchil</em>, the beloved garden of grandfather Teo, passing the mangos, entering the jungle. The crickets are the voice of the approaching night, this whistle the mystery of the twilight.</p>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-1024x768.jpg" alt="The garden of grandfather Teo." class="wp-image-4764" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241216_000602810.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The garden of grandfather Teo.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a28ffc96ff781f8ae228bb4643242b3f wp-block-paragraph">The mystery is this: why is each day here different? Why does the earth give us so many chances, so many guides to learn from? The voice of each bird sings its story, its relationship with the living earth. The bud of every plant is a universe in waiting—and they all wait for us; what will we do? Will we learn the humble magic of the <em>milpa</em>, of thousands of generations of hands caring for the corn and the beans, the squash and the chile, the firewood and the manure, the cacao and the <em>guanábana</em>, so that our footprints may be gardens of flowers and jungles where the thicket tinamou (<em>Crypturellus cinnamomeus</em>) gives this simple whistle at sunset?</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The ghosts of the birds</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-1024x768.jpg" alt="Un granero se derrumba entre campos extensos de trigo, Montana, EU." class="wp-image-4680" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20240611_173822967.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">An abandoned barn falls down among massive wheat fields, Montana, USA.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-febb557bc17817522cc4c45fe40a6a26 wp-block-paragraph">Or will we tear apart the earth, so that our food only comes from the supermarket, so that it carries the ghosts of the birds and the beetles that once lived where a monoculture crop creeps to the horizon? It&#8217;s not a rhetorical question. Large-scale, mechanized agriculture continues growing across the planet, <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9982" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the primary cause of biodiversity loss</a> (in spite of climate change, another huge and growing threat). Industrial agriculture is an enormous and efficient system, difficult for anyone—farmers or consumers—to change. Efficient for saying goodbye to rainforests, <em>milpas</em>, insects, tinamous, efficient for selling us candy and snacks, diabetes and cancer, for losing our connection with the earth. But it&#8217;s not inevitable. Every <em>milpa</em>, every shade-grown coffee farm within the intact rainforest, every attempt to form a healthy relationship with the earth opens up a different possibility.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Ancestral practices</h3>


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<figure class="alignright is-resized"><img decoding="async" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20230709_143050712-1024x719.jpg" alt="El arándano silvestre (Vaccinium globulare)." style="width:500px"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Huckleberries (Vaccinium globulare).</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f2e9ceb803e5fd200541e6746b84ebbd wp-block-paragraph">We all have these practices in our ancestral lineages. Here in Mexico, <a href="https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/diversidad/sistemas-productivos/milpa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the system of the <em>milpa</em></a> is one of them. From the land where I was born among the mountains and valleys of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, there are the indigenous traditions, stewarding habitat for salmon, cedar, camas, and huckleberry. </p>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="655" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-1024x655.jpg" alt="Apple and cherry trees in my dad's orchard, cerca 2011." class="wp-image-4765" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-300x192.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010-768x492.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/010.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Apple and cherry trees in my dad&#8217;s orchard, cerca 2011.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62fe2f8a600881e90cf8584565769bd4 wp-block-paragraph">I suppose that somewhere in my European roots is a tradition of tending fruits, because they&#8217;ve always fascinated me. My mom has vivid childhood memories of picking raspberries with her Grandma Jessie. As a kid, I used to go huckleberry picking with my dad. Before he died, we went out in the evening to observe noctuid moths pollinating the cherries in his orchard, an orchard of old fruit trees without pesticides where the red-naped sapsuckers (<em>Sphyrapicus nuchalis</em>) drilled wells in the tree trunks and the pileated woodpeckers (<em>Dryocopus pileatus</em>) visited in the fall to feed on apples. There were enough to share. We dried apples, plums, and cherries, and I grew up craving this dried fruit. I wasn&#8217;t very interested in candy, because dried fruit from the orchard was so much better.</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1c0e47c8ec155a11e7eb7f7356190845 wp-block-paragraph">All of these traditions and many more offer us another way forward, together with the birds and the plants, the fungi—a way that gives us healthy food and gives the animals habitat to flourish.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The tinamou, the forest-falcon, and the owls</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-1024x768.jpg" alt="La silueta de un mango se ve contra el brillo final de la puesta del sol." class="wp-image-4681" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_002624351.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The silhouette of a mango tree against the final afterglow of the sunset.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c0bc6fc95e908eccb5b3d5864afd3d67 wp-block-paragraph">The thicket tinamou continues singing. The earth gives us so many chances, and the voice of each bird tells its story. Grandfather Teo tells me that there used to be quail here, but they disappeared. Maybe it was because of an increase in insecticide use in the area, he says. I continue to listen for the quail at sunset. Perhaps one day I&#8217;ll find them, like the thicket tinamou whistling now from the forest close to the Río Sal, this timid bird of the dense vegetation. It&#8217;s kind of like a chicken, except that it doesn&#8217;t scratch with its feet. Using its beak, it seeks out seeds, beetles, and fallen fruits. It nests on the forest floor during the hot spring and the rainy summer.</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7aba642c9502ae77bc9062c63bd5efe2 wp-block-paragraph">Along with the tinamou, do you hear that nasal cry? Now it&#8217;s gotten closer. It&#8217;s a collared forest-falcon (<em>Micrastur semitorquatus</em>), hunter of birds and squirrels, a bird that hides in the jungle and nests in cavities in the caoba (<em>Swietenia macrophylla</em>) and other big trees. And now the Middle American screech-owl (<em>Megascops guatemalae</em>) begins its nocturnal trill, this insectivorous owl that hunts grasshoppers and beetles at the edge of the plantings. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The mystery of the twilight</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="768" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-1024x768.jpg" alt="La silueta del Cerro Islá en la noche." class="wp-image-4682" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-300x225.jpg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20241209_004525903.NIGHT_.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The silhouette of the Cerro Islá in the night.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-35ce51c0dfb2537b84f8fe4042adc587 wp-block-paragraph">In the distance hoots the mottled owl (<em>Strix virgata</em>), larger than the screech-owl. It also feeds on many insects at the edge of the forest. The common pauraques (<em>Nyctidromus albicollis</em>) have emerged from the dense bushes where they passed the day. I can see them in the deepening darkness, perching on the clay of the track. They flutter under the crescent moon, hunting beetles, moths, and other flying insects. Sometimes I hear their liquid calls and their song, <em>purwheeoo!</em></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-61d3925af965a56eb2a636fe9b05d125 wp-block-paragraph">The fireflies are glimmering above the shadows of the <em>milpa</em>. Clusters of stars hang suspended above the guardian silhouette of the Cerro Islá. A while ago the thicket tinamou stopped whistling, but I know it&#8217;s still there, in the leaf litter of the rainforest. The Middle American screech-owl continues singing.</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3b27ae3f9a606e3908853f2f88a44d52 wp-block-paragraph">The earth gives us so many chances to learn; the voice of each bird tells us its story. The <em>milpa</em> shows us how we can live with fields of flowers and diverse forests, and everyone waits for us. What will we choose?</p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ca78297e005339dfe724176b7d234443 wp-block-paragraph"><em>Note: This story about the nocturnal birds of the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico alludes to the importance of insect diversity and intact ecosystems for birds and all life. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve touched on in other stories (such as those in bold that follow the references, below) and that I&#8217;ll continue exploring next month with a story from Montana, USA about owls, moths, and a project that is documenting the diversity and importance of these flying insects. Also, if you&#8217;d like to delve more into sustainable agriculture and biodiversity, check out the references I&#8217;ve shared below. In particular, I recommend Lorna Milne&#8217;s poignant and deeply personal essay &#8220;Losing Ty,&#8221; and Luke Hingtgen&#8217;s review of the inspiring book <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Third Plate</span>.</em></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Further reading</h3>


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<figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="966" src="http://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-1024x966.jpeg" alt="Picking coffee in a shade-grown coffee farm within native forest, Pluma Hidalgo, Oaxaca, January 2024. Photo by Carito Cordero. Shade-grown coffee farms like Finca La Huerta are another example of a way we can grow crops while also providing excellent habitat for wildlife." class="wp-image-4802" style="width:500px" srcset="https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-1024x966.jpeg 1024w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-300x283.jpeg 300w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23-768x725.jpeg 768w, https://wildwithnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-01-at-15.55.23.jpeg 1203w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Picking coffee in a shade-grown coffee farm within native forest, Pluma Hidalgo, Oaxaca, January 2024. Photo by Carito Cordero. Shade-grown coffee farms like Finca La Huerta are another example of a way we can grow crops while also providing excellent habitat for wildlife.</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-476d9411ec6a8be1932b5ecbceef61ef wp-block-paragraph">Billerman, S.M., B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg (editors) (2022). <strong>Birds of the World</strong>. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. <a href="https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-833ab169c12e47c67eb88d03335cd105 wp-block-paragraph">Hingtgen, L. (2014, 11 December). <strong>Review: The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food</strong>. <em>Edge Effects. </em><a href="https://edgeeffects.net/third-plate/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://edgeeffects.net/third-plate/</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b634f6832061f76f8818e905cc5435b9 wp-block-paragraph">Jaureguiberry, P. et al. (2022). <strong>The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss</strong>. <em>Science Advances </em>8:45. <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9982" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9982</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7295f3e6570acd758cf5652c9ffef788 wp-block-paragraph">Lozada Aranda, M. and A. Ponce Mendoza. (2016). <strong>La milpa</strong>. Biodiversidad Mexicana. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico City, Mexico.<a href="https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/diversidad/sistemas-productivos/milpa"> https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/diversidad/sistemas-productivos/milpa</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fe213bfceb27b7def721fa2627286bf4 wp-block-paragraph">Milne, L. (2023). <strong>Losing Ty</strong>. <em>Great Plains Quarterly</em> 43:4. <a href="https://www.lornamilne.com/losing-ty" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.lornamilne.com/losing-ty</a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5912e99ee185b4e8b574d7975fd7480d wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://wildwithnature.com/2024/06/01/tree-swallows-montana/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>A hopeful sign for a bird in decline: helping Montana&#8217;s tree swallows</strong></a></p>



<p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-94e37db904888d1b1b70312b61421597 wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://wildwithnature.com/2022/06/03/chokecherries-and-birds/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Lunch on the fly: a bird&#8217;s-eye view of chokecherries</strong></a></p>
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