Emily Gertz interviews Jonathan Trouern-Trend, author of the recently published Birding Babylon.
While stationed at Camp Anaconda -- a huge American installation located about 40 miles north of Baghdad in the Sunni Triangle near the Tigris River -- Trouern-Trend got to know the better birding spots on the base, including a small lagoon and the camp dump. Since he was working in intelligence, the base MPs didn't pay much attention as he peered through his binoculars. He recorded his observations anonymously on the blog Birding Babylon, and the matter-of-fact reports eventually attracted a wide readership. – "Wing Man : How Birding and Blogging Changed One Soldier’s Time in Iraq,” by Emily Gertz, Grist Magazine
And, the blog continues. Visit Birding Babylon.
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