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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

And, in contrast to all the blog posts that were expanded into essays, Jenn Dean’s “The Keepers of the Ghost Bird,” the story of the fight to save the Bermuda Petrel, the cahow, was originally published as an e-book by The Massachusetts Review (in which format it won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay Award).