Anthropologist Dan + Michael ask UCLA avian endocrinologist Michelle Rensel a deceptively simple question: Does birdwatching stress out birds?

Spoiler: yes—especially when humans get a little… too into it.

Bird culture, birder culture, ethics, aggression, and the Big List.

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