Ornithologist (bird scientist), poet, and author Drew Lanham was
recently awarded the Macarthur Genius Grant—$800,000 with no
strings attached. But despite his deep love for birds he almost
never studied the creatures at all. As a young man, he won a
full-ride scholarship to any school he wanted, only this award did
have strings attached. Drew would have to give up his dreams of
ecology and instead be an engineer. Hear how Drew was saved first
from a career he loathed by the lilting song of a prairie warbler
and then how a chicken saved Drew from going into the military to
be a pilot. Instead, it set him on the true path of his heart, to
study the magical flying creatures we call birds.
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