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This book is an essay on bird watching culture. The author describes the interaction between birds and humans in a literary style. He wrote about his natural insights into bird watching in Polish countryside and cities, his experience in rescuing stray birds during migration, and thinking about the plight of birds that are at a loss in the current rapidly changing environment. At the same time, the article is interspersed with a lot of interesting cultural knowledge, such as the metaphor of birds in Hitchcock's works, the "homage" to ornithologists in the James Bond series, the relationship between Polish painter Chemoski and birds, etc. It focuses more on the combination of the current status of bird protection and history and culture. The book won the 2017 Nike Award, Poland's most prestigious literary award, with many readers voting. Tokarczuk, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, also won this award.