The Heartsong Review started reading The genius of birds by Jennifer Ackerman
The language used to describe the behaviors of birds, as is often the case in nature writing, frequently echoes anti-immigration sentiments. Behaviors described negatively as invasive and choking out the native species. Behaviors equated with colonialism. It intrigues me, and when I come across it, it leaps out at me with surprising alarm. I cannot help but wonder how the future will judge this.