In the series, Christian Cooper will take viewers into the "wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds," according to National Geographic.

When a white woman called police on a Black man bird-watching in Central Park in 2020, their recorded encounter led Corina Newsome to act.

One of the co-organizers of Black Birders Week, she is countering the perception that naturalist means white.

The Steller's sea eagle — native to China, Japan, the Koreas and eastern Russia — was spotted along the Taunton River in Massachusetts on Monday. It was first seen in Alaska in the summer of 2020.

As America tries to come to terms with its complicated racial past, efforts are underway to remove all eponymous bird names and to "decolonize the birding experience" to include more Black people.