DARE TO BIRD

I was honoured to be on the American Birding Association's " American Birding Podcast , " for the second time today, discussing my book " Dare to Bird " with host Nate Swick. You can listen to the interview in full HERE   or below: By the way you can read all about the checklist changes put out today by the ABA. Some birders may be sad to know they have lost the Hoary Redpoll which has been lumped with Common Redpoll and the new species is simply called Redpoll. Read all the changes HERE

Check out the most recent trip report of the Young Birders trip to Pitt Lake. You can read the great time they had at the BC Young Birders Website HERE Beautiful Grant Narrows, where the youth had their field trip, in Pitt Meadows - Photo: Raymond Liu

I was honoured to do an interview with my friends Alvaro Jaramillo and Mollee Brown on their podcast called “ Life List - A Birding Podcast.” Alvaro used to live in Vancouver and Mollee is a female bird guide and avid birder like myself and we discuss birding from a female perspective as well. We talk about my book and the young birders and everything in between. I was really touched by the words Alvaro in particular said about me.  You can listen to the one hour episode called  “ Intersections of science, art, and passion in birding” HERE   or any other podcast platform. Thanks again to Mollee and Alvaro for having me on.

Today I saw my book in Canada’s biggest bookstore for the first time! Young birder program graduate Josh Brown sent me a photo of himself with my book at Chapters so I decided to finally check it out for myself. I was delaying visiting the bookstore because I knew it would be bittersweet. When I saw my book for the first time on the shelf, the feeling was incredibly special but also tinged with sadness. I walked into Indigo Bookstore on Robson Street in Vancouver today and saw my book on the shelf beside Kaufman and Sibley in the “Birds” section. It felt so surreal and was a real special moment. I wanted to pick up the phone and call my dad or better yet I wished that he was standing beside me. What a bittersweet moment. He so wanted to see this book and how proud he would have been to see my book on the shelf. Another day of carrying both joy and grief. I’m really proud of this accomplishment but also sad both my parents can’t be around for this but it is just another milestone they s

I was honoured to find out that my book Dare to Bird made the BC Best Seller List and in the top ten too! I’m blown away by all the support for this book and am so touched that so many people like the book and find it resonating with them! You can see the BC Best Seller List in full HERE   and in the Vancouver Sun HERE Indigo and Amazon both sold out of the book and Amazon became back ordered. In fact Indigo sold out twice but just restocked it again and are offering 10x the points for Canadian Books like mine if you buy the book from them online . The book is also available in most local bookstores (thanks to all of them for carrying it) and for free to loan at almost all local libraries. It was nice to see that there are many holds on the copies! The book is also available as an e-book which came out June 24th. Thanks to all the folks sending me pics of them with the book. Also thanks to the young birders who went to the bookstore Upstart and Crow on Granville Island to buy the boo

You can read the most recent Young Birder Trip to Cypress at the BC Young Birders website HERE The youth had a great time! Thanks to young birder program graduate Evan Larson for writing up the report and for his help leading the youth on this trip! Young Birders on Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver - Photo: Evan Larson

Check out my Q & A interview feature in the Narwhal! You can read the story in full at the link HERE Thanks to Michelle Cyca for the in-depth interview.

I was really touched by the beautiful words that Kate Dalgleish from Birds Canada wrote about my newly released book " Dare to Bird " calling it "A masterpiece of beauty and conservation." You can read the book review in full at the link HERE Photo: by Steve Owst

Today is publication day and my book is officially out! Check out this video my friend Max made of the book he bought in a local Quebec City bookstore. I  have to say it looks pretty sharp no? Also my friend in the UK sent me photos of a review of my book, along with a photo of a Veery that I took in Peachland, BC in Outdoor Photography Magazine ! I was truly honoured to see it there.

Liron Gertsman submitted a review of my book to BC Nature Magazine. You can read the review of the book below in the 2024 summer edition. Thank you Liron for such kind words! I also received a beautiful editorial review from my friend Cameron Eckert, which I’ve attached below as well! Thanks Cam! The book is released worldwide on June 18, 2024.