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Avian Teachers: On What We Can Learn from Birds

Avian Teachers: On What We Can Learn from Birds

Trish O’Kane Explores the Myriad Ways Our Feathered Friends Can Show Us Smarter, More Compassionate Ways of Living

By Trish O'Kane | February 27, 2024

How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

Gísli Pálsson on the Undersung Work of the Naturalists John Wolley and Alfred Newton

By Gísli Pálsson | February 7, 2024

What the Marabou Stork Taught Me About Writing in an Era of Mass Extinction and Waste

What the Marabou Stork Taught Me About Writing in an Era of Mass Extinction and Waste

Ashia Ajani on Figuring Out How to Thrive During an Apocalypse

By Ashia Ajani | November 6, 2023

This Eagle Would Eat Your Toddler If It Had The Chance

This Eagle Would Eat Your Toddler If It Had The Chance

Adam Hart on Our Shared History With Predators

By Adam Hart | May 11, 2023

Here is an artistic reconstruction of Philip Roth's rejected ornithologist satire.

Here is an artistic reconstruction of Philip Roth's rejected ornithologist satire.

By Jessie Gaynor | March 23, 2021

The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet

The Grandfather of New Nature Writing Was a Bird-Loving Poet

John Clare, Peasant Poet, Ornithologist

By Stephen Moss | December 6, 2018

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