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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. She says in her Introduction that she was inspired to compile this collection by a much earlier essay, an article by E.B. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.

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