A Dangerous Game of Chicken
IF FUTURE HUMANS WERE TO GUESS which animal we most revered, depended upon, and loved, it would not be our cat and canine companions, noble horses, or overworked cows. It would Continue reading
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The Orion Staff’s 11 Spark Birds
In honor of the release of Orion’s anthology Spark Birds, this magazine’s staff gathered in late July over Zoom to talk about the birds that glide and stride through our mind’s Continue reading
Tune In: Listen to 3 Shifting Soundscapes
This story is part of Bird Week 2023, in celebration of Orion’s newest anthology, Spark Birds. You can preorder this book, packed with some of Orion‘s greatest essays about all things feathered, right here. On Continue reading
Messengers from the Past
Priyanka Kumar’s “Messengers from the Past” is excerpted from Conversations with Birds. I. THE CROWN JEWEL OF OUR National Wildlife Refuge System, the Bosque del Apache, has been my annual pilgrimage Continue reading
The Tracks Around Bulbjerg
The following essay, “The Tracks around Bulbjerg”, is from A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast. by Dorthe Nors. It’s exposed as a stump of tooth. Continue reading