Your Bird Story

Kelli Hata's Haecceity Project Honors the Sacred Nature of Every Bird


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Kelli Hata founded the Haecceity Project to chronicle the birds who die by colliding with glass structures on the Yale University campus. The word haecceity was coined by John Duns Scotus, a Medieval scholar. Wikipedia defines haecceity as meaning “each individual entity has a unique, unrepeatable quality that makes it different from every other entity.” The bird care work which Hata has been involved with for years in California and in New Haven embodies the sacredness and innate value of each and every bird. We also discuss practicalities--(1) the preventability of glass collisions and (2) the responsibility of universities to conserve birds as they migrate through their campuses.

Follow the Haecceity Project, Yale @yale_haecceity.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod for the People

Vocalizations: 

Scrub Jay: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/225405191

Mockingbird song: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/213457711

Prothonotary Warbler song: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/99435531

Dark-eyed Junco song: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/85243

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