Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds

This is a pretty solid book on how New York, surprisingly, is a strong site for bird-watching, which I did not know, and I can't confirm by myself, but the book makes very compelling arguments. The book is largely written in a loose format, but there are a few themes: the relationship between humans and birds, why NYC is such a popular birding site (basically calorie-density), why NYC is also a death trap for birds (glass, lights, etc) and some light discussion on the global warming and how humans try to positively affect our environment which birds also live in. There a few human profiles in the book, as Peter Dorosh and Don Riepe. For whatever reason this book kinda passed through my brain. The content is undeniably interesting and new to me but the writing I think lacks cohesion and falls into the "bullet-points-into-sentences" style, particularly when facts about birds are interwoven into statistics are interwoven into narrative about what the writer is doing in that slice of time. I also think the writing also tries to speak about birds in a literary, halfway-to-purple-prose way, which is fine but then it gets distracted by the nuts-and-bolts of what it is trying to say in the current chapter, i.e. about birds, about humans, about the environment, whatever. So the writing can be kinda confused but it's such a unique subject that doesn't lend itself to a simple narrative, and so I can forgive it. This is a good book, I just wish I gelled with it more.