Culture

At a Time of Standstill, Remembering the Significance of Life on the Move
October 16, 2020 — With fall migration well underway, birders can appreciate the ecological and societal importance of global mobility during a difficult year.
COVID-19
Working to Restore Bird Habitat, I Carry On Traditions That Were Meant to Be Erased
October 09, 2020 — Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a chance to celebrate the diversity and resilience of our country’s original inhabitants, whose long-overlooked ecological knowledge can help guide conservation today.
Indigenous Communities
‘Destringers’ Save New York City's Pigeons One Foot at a Time
October 09, 2020 — Bird feet can get entangled in string, thread, and hair, leading to serious and deadly injuries. Dedicated volunteers catch the birds to help.
News
Food Editor Sam Sifton on the Joy of Birds and the Perfect Birding Sandwich
October 02, 2020 — The New York Times cooking scribe has renewed a childhood passion—and struggled with bird-feeder befuddlement—at home during the pandemic.
Inside Germany’s Giant, Hungry, Flightless-Bird Problem
September 26, 2020 — Greater Rheas, native to South America, are thriving in northern Europe—and coming into conflict with farmers whose crops they eat.
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Why Nature Writer Helen Macdonald Says We Need to Embrace the Apocalypse
September 21, 2020 — In "Vesper Flights," a timely collection of essays, the bestselling author remains in awe of the natural world, and finds hope amid catastrophe.
Books
Not Sure What NBA Team to Cheer For? Here's our Birder's Guide to the Playoffs.
September 18, 2020 — It's the postseason. It's fall migration. What a time to be alive.
News
The University of Illinois Might Make a Kingfisher Its New Mascot. It should!
September 18, 2020 — Spencer Hulsey, a former U of I student, began the campaign last year. This Monday the school's Senate will vote on the proposal.
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John Luther Adams in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1999. Dennis Keeley
How an Acclaimed Composer Found His Musical Voice Through Birdsong
September 16, 2020 — Decades after a songbird's whirling melody set him on a new artistic path, John Luther Adams is more determined than ever to help us hear the planet's power and wild beauty—and fight to protect it.
News
‘It’s a Bird’ Is a New Comic Written by Central Park Birder Christian Cooper
September 14, 2020 — The story, which is loosely inspired by Cooper's racist encounter in the park, is the first in the digital "Represent!" series from DC Comics.
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