Colorado

After everyone said their goodbyes, the training week was done, and my latest field season with the Bird Conservancy had finally started. I was a horse with the bit in my teeth, a sighthound let off the leash, a falcon launching myself off the wrist. It had been 6 years since I last worked as …

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Birders are weird. For one thing, they’re reckless drivers. One moment they’ll be happily toddling along the road, the next they’ll yank their steering wheel to the side and rummage around for the binoculars that are wedged into the cupholders of the car because they spotted a raptor on a telephone wire. For another, they …

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