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Birdgirl

A Young Environmentalist Looks to the Skies in Search of a Better Future

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Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life, so tightly woven in that there's no way of pulling it free and leaving the rest of my life intact.

Meet Mya-Rose—otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. Birder, environmentalist, diversity activist. To date she has seen over 5,000 different types of bird: half the world's species.

Every single bird a treasure. Each sighting a small step in her family journey—a collective moment of joy and stillness amidst her mother's deepening mental health crisis. And each helping her to find her voice.

Since she was young, she has visited every continent to pursue her passion, seeing first-hand the inequality and reckless destruction we are inflicting on our fragile planet. And the simple, mindful act of looking for birds has made her ever-more determined to campaign for all our survival.

This is her story; a journey defined by her love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.

©2022 Mya-Rose Craig (P)2022 Penguin Audio Animals Biological Sciences Environment Environmentalists & Naturalists Mental Health Awareness Outdoors & Nature Professionals & Academics Science Conservation

Critic reviews

"Lyrical, poignant and insightful." (Margaret Atwood)
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If you are birder listen to this book. If you are not a birder yet, listen to this book. I am now hooked and recently I spotted a large bird and filmed it on my phone and sent it to the local county recorder. It turned out to be an Osprey and it was an unusually late date for it to be spotted there in Cornwall. I'm also off to watch a murmuration this evening.

This is also a compassionate and insightful memoir of growing up with a mother suffering with mental health illness and how bird watching trips knits their family together.

Mya-Rose reads this beautifully - it was a wonderful audio journey to go on.

This book is for everyone

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An inspiring book for anyone remotely interested in the the environment. As well as birds of course!

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