And again...

If the last couple of weeks have taught us nothing else, it's that there are far too many causes out there in need of assistance from good people. I won't pretend that the Floreana mockingbird is more deserving than the Haitian people. But the day may come when you have a few extra dollars and there's not a human disaster staring at you nightly from your TV screen. If that happens, the birds that actually influenced Darwin more than those finches deserve a look. Without help, they're probably on the way out.