Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene

"There’s love and death here, fear, fascination, hope, and the breaking of the world. Dee has written an absolute triumph.”―Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk

Over the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. They are more our contemporaries than most birds, living their wild lives among us in towns and cities. In many ways they live as we do, walking the b...