Mr. MacLeod, whose office is nearby on East 10th Street, visits the park on weekdays and musters his birds like a drill sergeant.
When the smoke cleared from Baghdad's worst bombing in months, the Iraqi police said 13 people were dead and 57 wounded, although the American military put the death toll at 8. Witnesses told the police that two homemade bombs had been hidden inside a bird box, with air holes drilled through its sides.
Back in 1991, when Mr. Bird was selling specialized chemicals for drilling, a friend and petroleum engineer named Jim Teague asked how many Christians he knew in the industry.
Documented impacts relative to development intensity can be used to forecast biological trade-offs of newly proposed or ongoing developments, and when drilling is approved, anticipated bird declines form the biological currency for negotiating offsets.
As tourism has soared in the last two decades, and as Park Service biologists have spent thousands of hours improving habitat for endangered birds and turtles, gas drilling has declined sharply.
Choose the size of the drill bit based on how large a bird you'd like to accommodate.
The birds will be caged, but the swings soaring through the drill hall may produce the sensation of flight.
The height at which you drill the hole is also important, as different birds prefer different nest-cavity depths.
The attorney general even tried to strip protections from the lesser prairie chicken, a threatened bird, because it presented a feathered barrier to oil and gas drilling.
While Douglas Abuuru, another UNICEF WASH specialist, analyzed samples of water and soil collected from the different stages of the drilling, I climbed up the rig, to take a bird's eye look around.
