Bird Books with BirdNote

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Bird Books with BirdNote
Written by Ariana Remmel

This is BirdNote.

This week, we are asking you to support the show at birdnote.org so that we can keep providing daily stories about birds to your local station for free.

Now… for many of us nature nerds, books and birds go hand in hand. That’s why BirdNote brings you conversations with award-winning writers about how birds inspire their work.

Like birder and field guide author Kenn Kaufman:

[Kenn Kaufman: Paying attention to the birds around you is going to make your life more three dimensional and more exciting, and they can bring more beauty into your life.]

And former US poet laureate Ada Limón reading from her collection The Hurting Kind:

[Ada Limón: I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.)]

BirdNote takes you behind behind the scenes of books like A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching with Rosemary Mosco:

[Rosemary Mosco: I was not always a fan of pigeons]

It's a bit like we're all part of a bird-lover's book club — and we need support from listeners like you to keep our literary journey going. Make a donation of any amount at our website BirdNote dot org, where you can learn more about the authors you heard today and the birds they love.  

On behalf of everyone at BirdNote, thank you for your support. I'm Mark Bramhill.

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Senior Producer: Mark Bramhill
Producer: Sam Johnson
Managing Producer: Jazzi Johnson
Managing Producer: Ariana Remmel
Content Director: Jonese Franklin

Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Recorded by TK
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Narrator: Mark Bramhill

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