Like a lot of other elder millennials, I got very into birdwatching during the pandemic lockdowns, but I’ve always been interested in birds. I remember the first time I saw a bird and wanted to know more–a scarlet tanager at a nature center when I was a kid. In a time before cell phones, I couldn’t just look up what I’d seen. I had to describe it and my parents helped me find it in our Audubon’s Birds of North America guide. After that I […]
And I for one welcome our new feathered overlords
The Story of Birds by Steve Brusatte
