✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Zugunruhe - Aidan Smith

aidanjs.com · 1,472 words · saved by 1 readers

Meditations on San Francisco, city of migratory birds.

← Blog May 19, 2025 Zugunruhe Their feathers are matted. Their eyes are deep anxious pools. And despite their cages, still they flap their wings, restless, desperate. It's winter in Colorado, and the birds can smell it in the air. Even when the food keeps coming and the heat never turns to cool, they need to get out . It's Zugunruhe , the despair that overtakes migratory animals who get stuck in one place. Those who for generations have flown rather than stayed need to keep moving; where relatives might hunker down in beak-drilled holes or stolen furs, these birds make migration to better land

Explore this link on the map →

related reading