KEY SELLING POINTS:

• Bird Calling (and Identifying Bird Calls) Is a Major Trend: Millions of people are listening to bird calls every day; online courses, apps, YouTube and TikTok tutorials for identifying bird calls have exploded in popularity in recent years.
• Birdsong is Disappearing from Cities at an Alarming Rate. Birdsong is extremely vulnerable to noise pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change; this is a hot-button issue with wide mainstream support in rural and urban communities.
• The Absence of Birdsong in Cities is Capturing Headlines: ?An Album of Endangered Bird Calls beat Taylor Swift on a Top 50 Chart? reads an NPR article about the loss of birdsong in a city. ?Birdsong once signaled the onset of spring?but not this year? reads another article in the Guardian.

• Readers of Lyrical Nature Memoirs: including books by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Helen MacDonald, Marc Hamer, and Margaret Renkl.
• Readers of Jennifer Ackerman: Ackerman's books What an Owl Knows, The Genius of Birds, and others offer different and unusual ways to think about birds. The Bird Singers offers yet another way: as nature's poets.
• Readers of Inspirational Memoirs: The Bird Singers offers an inspiring and heartwarming tale of two boys from different backgrounds who form an unlikely friendship through their shared love of bird calling.
• Fathers and Sons: The Bird Singers details the friendship between two boys and their fathers through the years, and how nature has positively influenced them all.
• Birders and Bird-Watchers: 1 in 3 Americans are birdwatchers, and 1 in 5 Canadians. Bird watching is now more popular than fishing, camping, and most other nature activities.
• Conservationists: the alarming disappearance of birdsong in cities and in the countryside makes the calls of birds all the more precious. The Bird Singers celebrates that preciousness in beautiful prose.