When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.
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