Monthly Archives: May 2020

Why Birds Matter (Again)

There’s not a lot of birding to be done during a pandemic on World Migratory Bird Day (today), with many parks closed and travel frowned upon, so I decided to reread Jonathan Franzen’s great essay in National Geographic, “Why Birds … Continue reading

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Trying to help while stuck at home

One of my projects for the Covid-19 self-isolation has been reading about bird migration and bird conservation, mostly on sites like Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. World Migratory Day is May 9, 2020, and although I’d like to … Continue reading

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