Dare to bird Exploring the joy and power of birds
Book - 2024
"Melissa Hafting is an ethical, passionate, and respected birder, photographer, and mentor. Her love for birding has helped shape who she is and has helped with her mental health, along with enabling her to cope with the difficult aspects of grief and loss after the death of her mother and father. Showcasing some of Melissa's most stunning bird images from the continental United States, Hawaii, and Canada, Dare to Bird explores the joy that birding and photography has brought to her life and how both have allowed her to foster meaningful connections with young birders from diverse backgrounds, along with the conservation community, eco-travel advocates, rare bird enthusiasts, and ethical wildlife viewing practitioners in order to ...preserve bird habitats that are constantly under threat. At the same time, she is determined to expand birding to include more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), women, and LGBTQIA+ through youth outreach and talking about the barriers (racism and sexism) she herself has faced in her journey to become part of the birding community"--
- Subjects
- Published
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[Calgary, Alberta] :
Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 239 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9781771606547
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The importance of diversity and inclusion
- Flight
- Hummingbirds - the prismatic gems
- Connection
- The healing power of bird sounds and sound
- Birding with mom
- The dance
- The secrets of birds
- Rare bird alert
- In my solitude
- Owls
- The charms of albatrosses and pelagics
- Colonies
- Young birders
- Grief, birds, and birding with dad
- The wonders of bird travel
- How birds can save us
- Friendship and the social aspect of birding
- Birding with a dog
- Hope
- Afterword
- About the author.