Keith Russell, program manager of urban conservation at Audubon Pennsylvania, records data while conducting a breeding bird census, at Wissahickon Valley Park, on Jin Philadelphia. But he’s never felt unsafe among fellow birders and hopes Cooper’s close call doesn’t scare off others. Keith Russell, 63, an urban conservation program manager for the National Audubon Society’s Philadelphia-based chapter, said as a Black person, he has his guard up if he’s searching for birds with binoculars near homes. Birding isn’t all that well understood by people,” Parr said. “We personally haven’t come across anything like that, but as a parent, I am concerned about things that could happen to him. Cooper’s experience is now in the back of his mind. His youngest, who is 12, has gotten into birding. Mike Parr, president of the American Bird Conservancy, is white but his three sons are half-Black. “If someone easily recognizes them as binoculars, it’s still a case in which I have to prove that I’m actually looking for birds occasionally.” “Just simple stuff like that I have to pay attention to that other people might say, ‘What? Come on dude! They’re just binoculars,’” Ward said.
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