Talk:Silent Spring/@comment-25941663-20180807130249/@comment-10502460-20180808102902

Thanks for the feedback. The term I see most often for wildlife is "occur", especially for birds since they can fly and show up in unexpected places. Just because a bird is known to "occur" in a region doesn't mean it "inhabits" it; it might just show up as an occasional vagrant like the snowy owl does in Missouri during winter.

As for the images, yeah, I can't say I'm greatly pleased with the ones I chose for the DOI and DOD seals. Later on after judging closes on this contest I might go back and switch them out for better ones.

The wildlife images on the other hand might be considered too high-quality to be believable for the 1990s, but I didn't consider it worth the trouble to hunt down lower-quality images or change the quality myself using an image editor, and I wanted to make sure all my images were public domain or share-alike.

I did consider adding more intricacies and horror factor, but I wanted to keep this story grounded and avoid the temptation to stray off into outright SCP territory even though this was largely inspired by SCP.