It was a pleasure to be interviewed along with Martha Steele and Jerry Berrier, two totally blind birders that I am happy to call my friends. We discuss our experiences of enjoying birds with vision loss here: https://thomasconry.podbean.com/e/bird-watching-while-blind-join-the-movement/
Honored to be mentioned alongside a number of great birders that are featured in the New York Times this weekend: LINK
Suppose you’ve just set up a last-minute trip for birding in Manuas, Brazil. It will be your first time in that diverse region, which sits on the border of Amazonia and the Guianan Shield. There are hundreds of species that will be new for you, and so you will have far too many targets to … More Why Is Vision Considered More Important Than Hearing?
When I was much younger and had normal eyesight, I worked as a line cook. I enjoyed the mental and physical challenge of handling dozens of orders at once. You had to constantly think about your next actions, and your hands, eyes, and feet were obliged to move quickly. Mistakes and inefficiency were cumulative; if … More Why I Go Further Away, Not Closer
Retinitis Pigmentosa, or RP, is a degenerative, hereditary eye disease, and a miserable hand to draw at the table of genetic inheritance. RP reduces, or outright destroys, peripheral vision, by attacking the rod photoreceptors which are distributed to the sides of the retina, away from the back of the eye, where the cones predominate. The cones provide … More Birding in the Tunnel
