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Humans and birds don't have much in common.

For example, most birds can fly and most humans can't.

But one thing we do have in common is that humans and birds both

love to play tourists in New York City. Every year millions of birds fly through

New York on their annual migration and because flying several thousand miles is pretty exhausting,

these birds nest for a few days in one of NYC's many urban parks.

I live really near Brooklyn Bridge Park and I basically walked in the park almost every day of the pandemic,

but I always saw it through the eyes of, you know, somebody who's an architecture critic,

but I'd never really perceived it as a bird

habitat. This is design critic and friend of the show Alexander Lang. I would see people

you know tweeting pictures of birds from Brooklyn Ridge Park.

And so I'd think, oh, I should, you know, notice those, but I just, it's like I didn't know

how to notice them.

Alexandra wanted to know more about the birds passing through her city and wrote an article about it for the website City Lab.

Last November she emailed two local birders and they showed her all the birds quietly nesting in her favorite park.

And then we have the ravens nest.

Do you hear about that?

So the ravens nested on the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Oh! And that's the third the third ever on record raven nest. They showed me this bird

that they called the butter butt.

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