Thu, Nov 05
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Priyanka Kumar, Grassland Queen: An Avian Love Story in the American Plains
A naturalist's lyrical journey into the world of an endangered community of birds and the vanishing grasslands that sustain them. Priyanka will be in conversation with Dan Flores, a historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 05, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Pre-order Grassland Queen ($27.99, hardcover, publishes Nov. 3) online from CWB or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
An elegant shorebird with a rounded body and an improbably elongated bill, the long-billed curlew is a highly intelligent bird that mates for life. There aren't many curlews left, but those that remain undertake stunning migrations from summer grasslands to coastal and wetland wintering grounds, returning to find one another again. With their diverse habitat needs, these singular birds highlight the importance of critical but increasingly endangered grassland ecosystems and have become an emblem of the formidable challenges that all birds face today.
Priyanka Kumar has tracked the curlew over many years in New Mexico, the Great Plains, and the Great Basin, growing increasingly concerned about the fate of the grassland bird community. In this uniquely personal book, Kumar brings the curlew's…