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Birding apps usually promise speed, certainty, and instant answers. Firefinch moves in another direction entirely – towards attention, illustration, and the slower process of learning how to truly recognise birds.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Birding apps usually promise speed, certainty, and instant answers. Firefinch moves in another direction entirely – towards attention, illustration, and the slower process of learning how to truly recognise birds.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Curlews are not disappearing unnoticed. The causes of their decline are now well understood, yet across flyways and landscapes, recovery remains limited and uneven — raising a harder question about the scale and persistence of our response.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Over four decades, a familiar North American songbird has grown smaller. But genomic evidence reveals that not all of these changes are evolutionary – some may simply reflect the remarkable plasticity of living organisms in a warming world.
Gyorgy Szimuly
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Ornithology begins not with numbers, but with looking. This conversation with Szabolcs Kókay examines how bird art operates upstream from science – shaping what we notice, understand, and value.
Gyorgy Szimuly