Join author and naturalist Hannah Hindley for a fascinating exploration of the remarkable birds that call the San Francisco Bay Area home. Drawing from the book, In the Shadow of the Bridge; Birds of the Bay Area, Hannah reveals the surprising lives, behaviors, and resilience of the birds thriving alongside us in this extraordinary urban ecosystem.

Presenter Bio

Hannah Hindley is a wilderness guide and the recipient of the Thomas Wood Award in Journalism, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Barry Lopez Prize in Nonfiction. She graduated from Harvard with degrees in English and evolutionary biology; she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Arizona. Her environmental essays can be found in Bay Nature, The Sun, Hakai, and more. Hannah is the author of In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area with author and photographer Dick Evans. She also writes about small creatures, big landscapes, and the scientists who love them.