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How to Name a Bird
—For J. Drew Lanham 1. Don’t say it. Definitely never it, but instead always who, as in that citrus-bright song throating from the branch—not what is that, but who might that Continue reading
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When Birds Nest in the Doorway, Go Out the Window
ON A DARK NIGHT LAST SPRING, I followed my thirteen-year-old son quietly around our house, climbed a wooden stepladder that straddled our trash barrels, and struggled up behind him through Continue reading
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8 Birds to Celebrate 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act
THE SHORE TOWN IN southern New Jersey where I grew up lays in the path of one of the major bird migratory routes of North America. It overlooks Great Egg Harbor, Continue reading
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To Kill or Not To Kill
I HEARD THE CHILDREN SCREAMING before I saw them, jumping up and down and laughing while running on the glittering sidewalk in Brooklyn. “Kill them! Kill them! Squish them!” I was Continue reading
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A Deep Thirst
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. IT IS DECEMBER OF 2021 AND I AM ON TOP of the Continue reading