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0063223147 epub In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish OKane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home, sending her into an emotional tailspin. Enter a scrappy cast of feathered charactersfirst a cardinal, urban parrots, and sparrows, then a catbird, owls, a bittern, and a woodcockthat cheered her up and showed her a new path. Inspired, O'Kane moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue an environmental studies PhD. There she became a full-on bird obsessivelogging hours in a stunningly biodiverse urban park, filling field notebooks with bird doings and dramas, and teaching ornithology to college students and middle-school kids. Read more