This publication invites readers into an extensive and interdisciplinary conversation about how we coexist and think alongside birds. In times of climate crisis and ecological grief, this book presents birds not as metaphors or curiosities, but as creatures with their own histories, desires, and ways of knowing.

Spanning speculative fiction, ancestral memory, critical ornithology, personal essay, and visual arts, her contributions explore the fragile and often overlooked relationships between humans and birds through myth, science, migration, and dreams. Through listening and attention, the book explores how birds shape landscapes, signal planetary change, and offer new ways of understanding time, voice, and relationship.

The authors draw on decolonial, feminist, and ecological practices to destabilize dominant narratives and invite forms of care, reciprocity, and reparation. From the mimicry of the lyrebird to the silence of extinct species, from winter sleep to co-domestication and spectral presence, each chapter evokes multispecies futures based on presence and poetic attention. This book, simultaneously a continuation of an exhibition and an encounter of diverse voices, becomes an enchantment—woven from memory, sound, and image—that reimagines kinship in flight.

With contributions from John Berger, Ignace Cami, Monika Czyzyk, Bryony Dunne, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Daisy Hildyard, Manjot Kaur, Natalie Lawrence, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Michelle J. Moyer, Evangeline M. Rose, Bernard Lohr, Karan J. Odom, Kevin E. Omland, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Ai Ozaki, Maria Popova, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Yuri Tuma and Suzanne Walsh.