CORVIDS
Welcome to
The Social Media Campaign
This is an overview of my SMC week where I tweeted about the problems that corvids are facing, solutions to problems, organizations that help them, and a nice infographic about corvid care! Click here for the Day-to-Day documentation, or visit my Twitter!
I think this is one of my better tweets because I was able to turn a single article into a thread. Sloths are my favorite animals and I originally planned to research and write about them, but I wasn't able to find enough to do so. It was around this time that I began to look for a different animal to focus on.
Overview
The Social Media Campaign is a week long event where I posted three times a day over a problem, solution, an organization, or helped further inform people about a particular animal. Social media is essential nowadays in order to get information out there and available for others to see. It is especially important when trying to raise awareness on a particular subject. Gaining an audience is not too difficult online compared to real life, and the Internet is a great place since you are bound to have a voice somewhere. For this reason, I took to Twitter to advocate for corvids.
This was a tweet in response to a question that someone had asked concerning replacing seafood in their diet. I like this tweet because I was able to respond due to a film documentary I had seen a few days prior, and that knowledge helped me inform the person of what they could do that would not hurt the environment so much while still not completely giving up something they enjoy to eat.
The two organizations I choose to advocate for were Corvid Isle (left) and The Birdcare Company (right). I chose these as my best tweets for different reasons. I liked the one on the left since the actual organzation liked and commented on my post which was amazing! And the one on the right explained the connection they had to each other. Corvid Isle openly supports The Birdcare Company, a fact I didn't know until I stumbled on it in one of the blogs on Corvid Isle's website. Below are the links for both organizations!
For my favorite problem posts, I have two, one whose photo was taken from the website I found it on and gave credit to. The left one shows the effects of poor care and treatment of a corvid in captivity so people know what to try and avoid. The one on the right shows a problem that I didn't even consider to be a problem myself! Impact trauma was a new phrase for me, and I was glad to spread the information for others to learn about too.
For the solutions, these are my favorite tweets. As a pacifist, I was distraught when I read about the killing of crows. So I took it upon myself to look for other ways to discourage crows from being in a certain area. The solution I got was from this article online that introduced a peaceful way of getting crows to leave an area, and I shared it as fast as I could with other people. On the right, I try to help educate others so they know what a fledgling looks like so they can avoid upsetting or taking the bird away from its nearby parents.
This is the infographic I made to help simplify and provide some tips to those who are trying to help a corvid. While these could be applied to birds in general, I took this information from a blog on Corvid Isle's website which focused primarily on corvids. I wanted to make it simple and informative, that way anyone could read it and learn something useful, even if they are not caring for a corvid then and there.
