Beverly & Anders Gyllenhaal: For the Birds

BEVERLY GYLLENHAAL was a reporter, features writer, and food editor at The News & Observer and The Miami Herald. She coauthored a syndicated column that appeared in 100 newspapers around the US and produced three books with nearly half a million copies in print.

ANDERS GYLLENHAAL was an investigative reporter at The Miami Herald and executive editor at The News & Observer, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis), and The Herald. He also served as the editorial vice president for the McClatchy Company’s thirty newsrooms and 2,000 journalists. He served on the Pulitzer Prize board for nine years.

Since 2010, the Gyllenhaals have been observing birds and documenting the declining population of birds.  In 2023, Simon & Schuster published their book “A Wing and a Prayer:  The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds.”  The Gyllenhaals also created the website https://flyinglessons.us/  in which they state:  “The website is about what we can learn from the birds around us. Some of the lessons are obvious, such as the way birds can be a barometer of environmental changes. Others are more subtle, like the way you, as an observer, have to adapt to navigate the world in which birds operate. We ourselves still have plenty to learn about birding, a late-in-life pursuit that has captivated us in retirement.”

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SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES:  3:31 min.

CRITICAL THINKING:  4:04 min.

DEVELOP A VOICE:   3:03 min.

SERENDIPITY:   0:49 sec.

PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS:   2:44 min.

UNDERSTANDS THE AUDIENCE’S PERSPECTIVE:   1:36 min.

UNDERSTANDS THE AUDIENCE’S PERSPECTIVE:   1:31 min.

CRITICAL THINKING:   0:25 sec.

OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED:   2:20 min

SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES:   1:15 min. 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   2:09 min.

COMMUNITY VALUES:   1:17 min