2016 Emotional Experience Killing 
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Donald Kroodsa’s “The Hour (or Two) Before the Dawn” is an adapted chapter from his book Listening to a Continent Sing (PUP, 2016).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. Rocky Mountain Books, July 2016.
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