The Cedar Waxwing — How to Befriend a Wanderering Frugivore

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The Cedar Waxwing — How to Befriend a Wanderering Frugivore

Birders know that few thrills parallel the meeting of a new bird species. We anticipate their migrations, we listen to their calls on the Merlin Bird ID app, and we find ourselves venturing farther and farther from home to add them to our list. Descendants of prehistoric creatures become collectables — numbers. “But what these numbers leave out is nearly all of a bird’s life,” Joan Strassmann writes in the introduction to her book “Slow Birding.…