Why you should try birding (w/ Christian Cooper)

为什么你应该尝试观鸟(克里斯蒂安·库珀)

How to Be a Better Human

自我完善

2023-10-02

33 分钟
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If you ask Christian Cooper, a science writer, editor, and the host of the show “Extraordinary Birder With Christian Cooper”, birding can teach us all kinds of lessons about life, self-acceptance, and joy. In this episode, Christian shares what he deems as the seven pleasures of birding, why inclusion is especially important in life-affirming pursuits, and how anyone (city-dwellers and countryside-residents alike) can commune with nature to unlock the awe and wonder of the world around us. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts

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  • Ted audio collective.

  • You're listening to how to be a better human.

  • I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

  • I am very much a city boy.

  • For all of my life, I have lived in places where I am surrounded by humans and where if you say to me something wild is happening outside, I assume that's like a crime or a flash mob on the subway or an improvised performance art piece that's blocking traffic.

  • Of course, though, just because I live in a city doesn't mean that there isn't actually wild nature here, too.

  • But until my conversation with today's guest, Christian Cooper, that's not something that I'd really ever paid attention to or been all that conscious of.

  • Christian is the host of the tv show Extraordinary Birder and the author of the book Better living through Birding.

  • He's also really well known as a comic book author who has written for places like Marvel and Star Trek.

  • But while Christian may express himself creatively in fictional worlds, I think that he's really a hero of the natural one, especially that hidden natural world that's all around us every day, no matter where we live.

  • Here's a clip from Christian.

  • I'm walking down 9th Avenue in the middle of midtown Manhattan.

  • There's traffic going by.

  • There's a construction site.

  • I'm talking to my friend.

  • Other people are passing by with their conversations, but that click, click, click, click of the kestrel cuts right through all of it.

  • And I'm like, oh, there's a kestrel here.

  • And my friend is like, what are you talking about?

  • And I'm like, and then my eye starts scanning the rooftops, and I'm like, over there.

  • And there's a kestrel.