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Post-pandemic Prognostications: What do we want to be?
From Bird Watcher's Digest May-June 2021 Issue, by Bob Ford and Paul J. Baicich
In a “Guest Editorial” for Bird Watcher’s Digest (May/June 2021), Partners in Flight (PIF) Coordinator Bob Ford and author Paul J. Baicich describe how bird conservationists and bird watchers might start navigating a novel, impactful way forward in the updraft of an emerging “new normal.” Ford and Baicich extract wisdom and lessons learned from a tumultuous year when a “global pandemic, severe economic distress, calls for social justice, and deepening political divisions” galvanized changes in social behavior and in how and when people interact with birds. The article presents some actions we all can take to be “deliberate in recrafting” a long-lasting “new normal” for a broader bird appreciation and conservation.