Back in 2020, Black birdwatcher Christian Cooper garnered national attention after he recorded a video in New York City’s Central Park of a white woman calling the police and making false claims about him threatening her and her dog. Cooper was birdwatching in the park when the woman harassed him. The video went viral in the hours following the incident and happened the same day as the arrest and murder of George Floyd.
Two years after the event, he will have his own TV show on the world-famous National Geographic, the network announced last week. According to Nat Geo, Cooper will host a new series for the channel called Extraordinary Birder, where viewers will be thrust into Cooper’s “wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds.”
“Whether braving stormy seas in Alaska for puffins, trekking into rainforests in Puerto Rico for parrots, or scaling a bridge in Manhattan for a peregrine falcon, he does whatever it takes to learn about these extraordinary feathered creatures and show us the remarkable world in the sky above,” National Geographic said in a statement.
The channel has yet to announce a premiere date for the new series, but Cooper, who said he’s been bird watching since he was 10, told The New York Times that when Nat Geo approached him with the idea, he was “all in.”
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