Ecologist Carl Safina rehabilitated an owlet he named Alfie. The experience sharpened his insights on the connections between species.
Carl Safina’s account of how he and his family adopted a screech owl, named her Alfie and raised it to adulthood, is, on one level, the story of human beings thrown in close contact with a familiar but wild animal. He digs much deeper, however, than Sterling North did for raccoons in “Rascal” and Margarete Sigl Corbo did for backyard birds in “Arnie, the Darling Starling.
Safina’s primary theme is how inattention numbs connection and leaves us living a less passionate life, less aware of our vast animalian community. But learning how to stay connected requires practice and knowledge. “To be human is to ask questions,” he says simply. And ask them he does.
How he worries about this little bird! He worries that she won’t eat , won’t fledge and that she may get killed in a storm . He worries about the effects of his intervention in Alfie’s life. He refrains from jazz drumming during Alfie and Plus-One’s “courtship.” At times Safina frets until he seems worn, as my mother used to say, to a frazzle. This fussiness derives in part from his urgent seriousness.
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