"How to Catch a Bird" is a stop motion short based on a childhood memory. When I was eight, my dad taught me how to fish. He told me to take the worm off the hook after fishing, but I had no idea why.

Typically, hunters “harvest” 3,000 birds in the spring and 300 in the fall, according to Scarpitti. The simple answer is it doesn’t get the juices flowing like the spring, when hunters ...