Our title, the embarrassing nickname of 20-year-old ornithologist Dr. Mya-Rose Craig, who travels the world for birds with hiking boots and binoculars.
Well, little birdie, looking for food? Quite unusual to find you at this time of year. Don’t fly away! Show me your plumage, so light green, even yellow and that characteristic twittering – you must be a greenfinch. Let’s be honest, who cares? Mya-Rose Craig, who could do as little with hopping through heaven and hell as other elementary school children could with the ornithology lexicon and studied the difference between cover and wing feathers like the aerodynamics of angular flight. But she has something that flies even higher than the peregrine falcon: her IQ. She’ll get her bachelor’s degree with it, she was awarded a doctorate in ornithology long ago, seriously: honoris causa – because of the birds, and for her great love of the environment. It was well worth the investment in sturdy hiking boots to travel to every corner of the world to experience your favorite animal again and again with an attentive look through the binoculars. Once she has traveled to every continent and seen the most exotic specimens circling in the sky – the ornithologist is really bursting at the seams. Her passion for her feathered friends has taught her to respect nature, which is why she organizes climate protests in the Arctic and nature camps with city children and fights for more equality in nature research. For this immeasurable commitment, she is honored with a Guinness World Record, with countless television appearances – the BBC celebrates the young British Bangladeshi in a documentary when she was just seven – Mya’s first own column about birds when she was 12. This girl has probably always had a bird – or quite simply: a great passion.
