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

10,000 Birds

I read Chris’s story and saw his video a couple of hours after his sister made it public on social media (I had been Facebook friends with Chris for several years, though I had never met him face-to-face). It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I remember that day.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. Can’t make it out?