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Tim Dee

Tim Dee is a writer and birdwatcher. He is the author of The Running Sky (2009) and Four Fields (2013), the editor of Ground Work (2018) and co-editor, with Simon Armitage, of The Poetry of Birds (2009). Previously, he worked as a radio producer at the BBC for thirty years. He lives in Bristol, the Cambridgeshire Fens, and sometimes in Cape Town, South Africa. (September 2018)

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Gulls and Us

The gulls’ boom in the northern hemisphere has coincided with industrialization and urbanization. By moving onto the rooftops of our buildings and by sourcing our edible refuse at rubbish dumps, gulls—herring gulls more than any—have gained unique admission into our habitat.

September 11, 2018

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