How the Left Exploits Birds for Politics, Profit, and Pseudoscience

Whether it’s racist bird names, Native American land acknowledgments, or climate change, swooping into the world of birding can give you a big woke headache.

Pete Dunne of the New Jersey Audubon Society uses binoculars during the World Series of Birding, May 12, 2007, in an estuary in Cape May, N.J. Photo STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images

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The politics of the left, which includes fake science and institutionalized cultural wokeness, has infiltrated birding to such an extent that it’s enough to send even the most passionate birder fleeing from the woods.