I haven’t yet seen a copy of the new U.S. edition of Tim Dee’s highly acclaimed Landfill; Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene here at The Biggest Week in American Birding, but I certainly hope someone will have thought to bring in a few copies so that those in attandance will […]
Whenever I find myself looking at a gull and not being able to put a species level identification to it, I invariably think back to my childhood alongside the mouth of the Columbia River and lament how much of my youth was wasted in things other than learning to identify the ever-present and seemingly endless numbers of gulls in the area.
Helen Macdonald, Tim Dee, and James Macdonald Lockhart recently gathered to discuss birds at the London Review Bookshop. Fortunately, for those unable to attend, it was recorded and can now be heard via podcast.