Christian Cooper is a birder living in New York City. During warbler season he gets up early to visit Central Park and find the warblers. Some warblers nest on the ground and Christian Cooper does not like it when dog owners let their dogs run off leash in Central Park. He wrote a book called Better Living Through Birding: Notes From A Black Man In The Natural World. He doesn't mention his encounter with an angry woman who threatened to call the police on him for filming her as she held her dog aloft by the dog's collar. Most of the book is a memoir about his life with his family and his interest in birds that started when he was ten years old. At one point in his life he worked for Marvel Comics where he introduced the first gay superhero. I especially enjoyed the chapters about studying at Harvard.
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