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Will transcripts be available???

That was amazing

The recording will be available and emailed to all registrants

So moved, Dr. Lanham. Speechless.

But not the transcript?

I’m actually not sure if a transcript is collected, feel free to email us Graise and we’ll see what we can figure out

Thanks Alison. Will do.

Thank You. That was beautiful

what book reminds you of your favorite bird or vice versa? Why?

Annie Dillard: Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t affair… the brightest oriole fades into leaves. These disappearances stun me into stillness and concentration; they say of nature that it conceals with a grand nonchalance, and they say of vision that it is a deliberate gift…I know how hard it is to capture an oriole before it ‘fades into leaves’:For nature does reveal as well as conceal: Now-you-don’t-see-it, now-you-do. For a week last September migrating red-winged blackbirds were feeding heavily down by the creek at the back of the house. One day I went out to investigate the racket; I walked up to a tree, an Osage orange, and a hundred birds flew away. They simply materialized out of the tree. I saw a tree, then a whisk of color, then a tree again. I walked closer and another hundred blackbirds took flight. Not a branch, not a twig budged…” What authors/naturalists other than those you’ve mentioend do you recommend?

Sent this only to panelists by accident: How do we justify current models of land conservation (acquisition followed by stewardship)- that Mass Audubon currently practices- when indigenous people call for land repatriation, when black-owned farm cooperatives heal ancestral wounds? How do we justify land ownership when it is clearly fading into obselecence?

Wonderful talk - very thought provoking! Do you have a favorite kind of bird?

Thank you, Thomas for the question.

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Thank you so much this is exactly it!

I’m a Black woman living in Boston and recently started birding. I belong to MA Audubon and a local bird club. On the many guided walks I’ve joined during the past 4 months, there has never been another Black person there. Do you see other Black birders? Do you have ideas of how other Black people can become interested in birding?

Yes, yes, yes!!!

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I’m a Kindergarten teacher teaching my remote students to birdwatch their “every day” birds. I have a young black boy who I now have hooked on watching his backyard birds in Boston — Pigeons, gulls, etc… And he’s obsessed with robins, although he can’t remember their name from one day to the next. He calls it “the bird with the orange belly” and that’s fine with me! :-)

Lovely.

Fantastic answer, thank you!

I am deeply grateful for Dr Lanham’s vital and profound work, and for him blessing us with his love & wisdom!

Are recordings available for previous webinars in this series?

Hi Thomas - Akiima Price’s talk is available, but the other two are not

Akiima Price: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/G0U_U89INWKUiHrLFMT2t1yLb8i2QD4ba1Si0atcOa_Tn7WbokO9ov0_wtQeOCJ-.EKcSglLN_JrgaLV5?startTime=1615421049000

Thank you all! Great series!

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Thank you all for the series.

Thank you….moved and inspired. Grateful.

Fabulous series. Thank you so much to everyone!