Ed Yong: Birding for a fulfilled life

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Interest in birdwatching has been booming, and Ed Yong is one of the millions who have fallen hard. Yong is a Pulitzer-prize winning science writer previously of the Atlantic, where he was one of the first journalists to deeply investigate long COVID. He says birding has has a transformative impact on his life in the last year, and hopes the same might be true for COVID long haulers. Plus: one unique effort to save a bird population in Hawaii. Guests: Ed Yong, science writer and author of "An Immense World"; bird conservation researcher and journalist Anders Gyllenhaal. Credits: 1 big thing is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, and Jay Cowit. Music is composed by Alex Sugiura and Jay Cowit. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can send questions, comments and story ideas as a text or voice memo to Niala at 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Americans are flocking to birdwatching. It really teaches you to actually devote your attention to something in nature.
0:19.0	That feels utterly magical.
0:22.0	Science writer Ed Yang on the transformative power of birding and why he wants those with
0:29.0	long COVID to give it a try.
0:31.0	Long COVID does contract your world.
0:36.0	Burding expands your world.
0:38.0	The post-pandemic case for birding.
0:41.0	I'm Nailaboodoo and for Maxios this is one big thing. You know I really wasn't a birder about eight months ago and now I'm going out almost every day for several hours a day.
1:03.9	Like I fell hard for birding.
1:10.6	You might know Ed Yang's name
1:11.9	from his Pulitzer Prize winning reporting on the
1:14.4	pandemic for the Atlantic, where he was one of the first journalists to
1:17.9	deeply investigate long COVID, or his 2022 book on Animal Census called An Immense World.
1:25.0	But he since added Burder to his list of titles,
1:27.8	joining the millions of other Americans
1:30.3	who've lately taken up the practice of heading outside and looking up,
1:34.0	especially since the peak of COVID,
1:36.0	when many people found bird watching as a new way to get outside.
1:40.0	The growth in birders has been really amazing since the pandemic.
1:45.0	Andrew Gillenhall writes about bird conservation.
1:50.0	He says that interest in birding has actually been trending up for a while.
1:54.0	The number of birders out there has doubled in the last 10 years or so.
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