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'Exhausted faithful return'
Signage designed by Alex Miles with writing by Fiona Rice. Tasmanian Aboriginal content at this site by Trish Hodge. Photo courtesy of Alex Miles.
Sicklebodied birds course offshore in their streams. The Short-tailed Shearwaters glow lambe...
Toward Birds, for Whom?
Taylor, Lili. Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing. New York: Crown, 2025.
About 15 years ago, she writes in Turning to Birds, the actor Lili Taylor “started to sense birds in a deeper way.” She retreated from her Brooklyn ap...
It’s a Bird— It’s a Plane— Oh No
Photo illustration by Alex Tey/Rare Bird. Photo by John Rodenn Castillo on Unsplash.
A note: This piece contains detailed discussion of bird death.
Birders often acclimate themselves to the knowledge that birds routinely die in all sorts...
For Reasons Known Only to Itself
The Brooklyn Swainson’s Hawk, seen here in 2023. Photo: Alex Tey/Rare Bird
This complex of buildings on the Brooklyn waterfront—officially the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility—is New York City’s main recycling plant and one of the la...
Seven sketches from iNaturalist
I’ve spent a decent amount of time identifying user-uploaded photos of North American birds on the community science website iNaturalist. Sometimes I come across observations that I save to my favorites because they show an interesting indi...
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