The Least Popular Birds in the U.S. Deserve Some Love
They may be small, drab, and shy, but somebody’s got to stand up for them.
When I was in sixth grade, the cool girls at my school drew up a document they called the popularity pyramid. Everyone was sorted into a handful of social categories; suffice it to say, I, along with the plurality of the class, was relegated to the lowest tranche and designated a Loser Beyond Belief.
Now a pair of scientists are doing something similar with the birds of the United States. In a published Monday in the , they ranked 621 avian species by their popularity. But unlike the pyramid of my past, this list isn’t
