10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This added layer elevates Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery from a book of fun birding and travel adventures to a more complex memoir about the ways in which birding spurs self-reflection, motivates life change, feeds a need for wonder, and creates community. There are also surprises.

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 223

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Typically, at least here in North America, we think of migration as a north-south affair. We are familiar with the story, birds flying north in the boreal summer, taking advantage of the warmth, long days, and abundant insect life, to raise their young. Nests are usually made in a sheltered cleft in rocks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. That’s one of my photos above. Birds are finely tuned to the climatic conditions that support them.

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