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

10,000 Birds

Reading this chapter, I thought back to the emotional conversations I, a white Jewish woman, had with birding friends back in May 2020, mostly online (remember, it was still the pandemic). But before that, it was these feathered dreams that would carry me across the globe on adventures, in search of birds in faraway places. (p.

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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. The bird names have changed some, the essay format has broadened, the authors are more diverse, but the ecstasy in writing about the intersection of human and bird remains intact. Press, 2020, 304p.