The 'H is for Hawk' author talks about her new essay collection.
,” the English naturalist and writer, best known for her award-winning memoir"H is for Hawk," muses on the role of animals in the natural world.
From observing a songbird migration atop the Empire State Building to marveling at the alien-like quality of European swifts, Macdonald says her new collection is like a Wunderkammer — a cabinet of wonders. “And I was watching them through binoculars and with the naked eye as well, and these tiny little frames, these tiny songbirds that were illuminated from beneath by the lights of the building, and there were so many of them, they looked almost like tracer fire or sort of stars passing overhead. And they're so frail.
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