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In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.

Trish O'Kane never expected to be a birder. She was a world-traveled journalist with no science background who surprised herself in her forties by falling in love with…

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1 author picked Birding to Change the World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It's about birding and history and local politics and academia and enivronmental justice and social justice and Hurricane Katrina and so many other things, all bound together by the author's autobiographical narrative. Very informative and inspirational.

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