Topic: Nature as a healer
Charlie Bingham is a UK based author. After completing a degree in archaeology at the University of York, Charlie began to reconnect with nature in her mid 20’s. She found that birds especially seemed to have the ability to help her through difficult times and made it her life’s mission to share her love and passion with a wide audience.
Through her debut book, The Life Affirming Magic of Birds, she communicates the lessons she has learnt on her journey reconnecting with nature and encourages people to notice nature, particularly in urban areas where there is magic waiting to be found. Charlie’s passion for the natural world shines across her social media platforms and in her work as a digital communications specialist and event manager for nature based charities.
The Life Affirming Magic of Birds
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| Timezone | Meeting Start Time |
|---|---|
| Europe/London (BST | UTC+1 hour) | Monday, 7 April 2025 at 7:00 pm |
| Europe/Frankfurt (CEST | UTC+2 hour) | Monday, 7 April 2025 at 8:00 pm |
| America/Los Angeles (PDT | UTC-7 hours) | Monday, 7 April 2025 at 11:00 am |
| America/New York (EDT | UTC-4 hours) | Monday, 7 April 2025 at 2:00 pm |
Topic: Caracaras: the world’s smartest raptors
Throughout his career, Jonathan Meiburg has charted a unique path between the arts and the sciences. In 1997, he received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to isolated communities around the world. It was a year-long journey that sparked an enduring fascination with islands, birds, and the deep history of life on Earth. Since then he’s written for print and online publications on subjects including a hidden exhibit hall at the American Museum of Natural History, the last interview with author Peter Matthiessen, and the bizarre marine life of the Antarctic seafloor.
In 2021 Knopf (US) and The Bodley Head (UK) published his first book, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey, a journey through landscapes and wildlife of South America with the crow-like falcons called caracaras, their human companions, and the 19th-century naturalist (and RSPB co-founder) William Henry Hudson. A Most Remarkable Creature was acclaimed as a thrilling hybrid of travel writing, natural history, and literary biography; “to call [it] a bird book,” wrote one reviewer, “is like calling Moby-Dick a whaling manual.” Meiburg is now at work on a sequel, The Secret Land, which will illuminate Antarctica’s pervasive and surprising influence on our planet’s past, present, and future.
Meiburg also has a parallel life as a recording and touring musician; his bands Shearwater and Loma have been praised by The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, BBC Radio 6, and Pitchfork—and he’s collaborated with artists from Sharon Van Etten to Laurie Anderson. Loma’s third album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, was released by Sub Pop records in June of 2024; the eighth Shearwater album is now in production.
Find out about the hidden life of the caracara
Topic: Caracaras: the world’s smartest raptors
Throughout his career, Jonathan Meiburg has charted a unique path between the arts and the sciences. In 1997, he received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to isolated communities around the world. It was a year-long journey that sparked an enduring fascination with islands, birds, and the deep history of life on Earth. Since then he’s written for print and online publications on subjects including a hidden exhibit hall at the American Museum of Natural History, the last interview with author Peter Matthiessen, and the bizarre marine life of the Antarctic seafloor.
In 2021 Knopf (US) and The Bodley Head (UK) published his first book, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey, a journey through landscapes and wildlife of South America with the crow-like falcons called caracaras, their human companions, and the 19th-century naturalist (and RSPB co-founder) William Henry Hudson. A Most Remarkable Creature was acclaimed as a thrilling hybrid of travel writing, natural history, and literary biography; “to call [it] a bird book,” wrote one reviewer, “is like calling Moby-Dick a whaling manual.” Meiburg is now at work on a sequel, The Secret Land, which will illuminate Antarctica’s pervasive and surprising influence on our planet’s past, present, and future.
Meiburg also has a parallel life as a recording and touring musician; his bands Shearwater and Loma have been praised by The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, BBC Radio 6, and Pitchfork—and he’s collaborated with artists from Sharon Van Etten to Laurie Anderson. Loma’s third album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, was released by Sub Pop records in June of 2024; the eighth Shearwater album is now in production.
Find out about the hidden life of the caracara
Jonathan Meiburg Wednesday 19 February 7pm GMT