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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I remember that day.

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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. And, in “The Black and White,” Sara Crosby tells the evocative tale of finding a deceased Black-and-white Warbler on Charles Street while walking her dog. Press, 2020, 304p.