July Birdy Book Club
Schedule
Tue Jul 14 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
131 Eastern Ave SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503-4443, United States | Grand Rapids, MI
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*Please note our new meeting location! The Pink House in Cherry Park, 131 Eastern Ave. SE, Grand Rapids. And please note that we're meeting on a Tuesday for July.*
This book club is open to all readers -- you're not required to be a member of the Grand Rapids Audubon Club (though we're happy to welcome you to that club, too!).
July's book: "The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground" by Menno Schilthuizen
In May's book club, we went global, delving into the tale of one man's around-the-world pursuit of a record-breaking big year. In July, we'll get hyper-local and talk about opportunities for wonder and discovery in your own backyard.
About the book:
A manifesto—and a field guide—for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells. Or a miniature spider that hunts ants and carries their corpses around. With a team of citizen scientists, that's exactly what Menno Schilthuizen did—one instance in the evolutionary biologist's campaign to take natural science to the urban landscape where most of us live today. In this delightful book, The Urban Naturalist, Schilthuizen invites us to join him, to embark on a new age of discovery, venturing out as intrepid explorers of our own urban habitat—and maybe in the process do the natural world some good.
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