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

10,000 Birds

This is what makes this memoir more than a collection of anecdotes; it’s our opportunity to understand the different parts that make the whole of a black gay man negotiating the natural world and the more challenging, the adjacent “real” world. Raw honesty is felt throughout.

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The Winter of our Discontent

10,000 Birds

The resident Peregrine Falcons have been fattening up on them, piles of feathers mark their collective demise on my favourite birding spot. I’ve neglected their company too long, but they always let me know that the winter isn’t so bad, not when you can spend it with great birds like them.

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